Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

It took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get to where we are today but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

This land which we have watered with our tears and our blood is now our mother country and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

Remember me with smiles and laughter for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears then don't remember me at all.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Well we ought to be stirred even to tears by society's ills.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

When onstage I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

If the world's a veil of tears Smile till rainbows span it.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.