When people laugh, they can change their minds

“I once interviewed the Dalai Lama, and I said to the Dalai Lama, ‘Why do Buddhists giggle all the time?’ Because they do. They just see the whole thing as a joke, you know, and they’re wonderful to be around. But he answered a different question, he said, ‘What I like about laughter is that when people laugh, they can change their minds.'”

John Cleese