Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

So many children in this situation were not able to tell us or social services who they are and where they lived and what their mom's name was.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.