“I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror”

“The best antidote for pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science.”

“Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.”

“Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.”

“Sometimes tears make more good than laughter.”

“The laughter knows the depth of his own sorrows but never tears.”

“Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.”

“I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.”

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”

“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.”