It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.
The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.
Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.
We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.
You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
Darkness is only light's absence.
Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.
The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil.
I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
I'm very different from other politicians.
