Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Huxley

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine — "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté."

Margaret Atwood

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

Antisthenes

Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

C. S. Lewis