"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one." ― Henry Ward Beecher Topic(s): Best Tags: laughter More From Henry Ward Beecher "We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." "Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient." "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things." More In Best "The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life."― Carl Lewis "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."― Willa Cather "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."― Thomas Jefferson