OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
—Steven Wright
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
—Edith Wharton
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
—Arlo Guthrie
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
—John Burroughs
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life—this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
—Charles Dudley Warner
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
—Emily Dickinson
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
—Ellen DeGeneres
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps someday we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
—John W. Gardner
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.
—Robert Schumann
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
—Helen Keller
We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveler and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines.
—H. M. Tomlinson
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
—George Sand
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
—Lucy Maud Montgomery
Shadow owes its birth to light.
—John Gay
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
—Aaron Rose