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

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

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

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

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

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

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.

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

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

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?

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

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

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

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

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

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

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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

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

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.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

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

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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

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

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

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I have good days and bad days.

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.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

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.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

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.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.