An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

We live in ugly times.