We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Samuel Beckett

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri Matisse

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
Charles Babbage

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.
Leonard Nimoy

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. Bush

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand

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.
Samuel Johnson

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles