When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color but the candle is always there.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit morning noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers using my body scrubs and lotions.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

If you have knowledge let others light their candles in it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

I was brought up in a very open rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so my imagination was crazy.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles which are expensive.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

Every day every birthday candle I blow out every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well every time my daughter says 'Let's make a wish on a star ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.