| "Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light." »Andrew Schneider |
| "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel |
| "Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee |
| "I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton |
| "Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have." »Henry C. Blinn |
| "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat." »Henny Youngman |
| "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller |
| "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 |
| "Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone." »Thomas De Quincey |
| "And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'" »Minnie Haskins |
| "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein |
| "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 some day 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 |
| "There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine |
| "The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that." »Bruce Lee |
| "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman |
| "I know of only one duty, and that is to love." »Albert Camus |
| "How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "The first duty of love is to listen." »Paul Tillich |
| "I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness." »Cicero |
| "England expects that every man will do his duty." »Lord Nelson |
| "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another." »George Eliot |
| "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you." »Woodrow Wilson |
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