Joan RiversThinkers

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Comedy is about saying what everyone else is thinking.

Comedy is always in a balancing act with anger. Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

The Connection is enormously valuable. College graduates ought to use their education and remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

Death is always a third act twist to life, and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Freedom is best viewed broadly. As the Victorians would say, as long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want.

Housework is awful because you make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later, you have to start all over again.

Laughter is a sufficient condition in being able to face a problem. If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Marriage requires being flexible, or what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break.

Maturity is coming to recognize that, with time, it (whatever it is) doesn't get better, rather, it is you that gets better.

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

Money may not be the key to happiness, but if you have enough money, you can have a key made.