"I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one."

"'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs."

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."

"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."

"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace"

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

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

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

I discovered that wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. Foolishness leaves you in the dark. But wise or foolish, we all end up the same... we all die and are soon forgotten.

“No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.” 

“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.” 

“The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.” 

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.” 

“One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.” 

“The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.”

“In my darkest moments, the “what-if”s bury me and the “if only”s keep me from enjoying what is.” 

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

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

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.