I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
