“Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.”

“Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”

“As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.”

“Oh, Warrior. Please don't cry every time I kiss you.”

“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”

“Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition.”

“You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry”