You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
—Arlo Guthrie
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
—Mother Teresa
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
—Paul Valéry