'Humor was therapeutic for McKay, and he urged others to take the same medicine. speaking to a group of former missionaries he said, "I believe in havinging good times, in laughing, relaxing, and seeing the sunny side of life. We are far too sober, have too much worry." And he pitied those who couldn't laugh, saying, "I feel a little sorry for those that have such long faces that they have to sleep on their pillow lengthwise.'
[Source: David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Greg Prince, chapter 1, footnote 91 and 92, David O. Mckay, remarks at the German-Austraian Missionary Association Banquet, January 21, 1939, in "Contact," the publication of the German missionary Association, March, 1939, DOMS #5. and Albert L. Bott, quoting McKay at the first Annual David O. McKay Honor Day, Ogden, Utah, February 25, 1965, DOMS #118.]
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