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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.

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

In London, a lot of the time you don't see the sun shine.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

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.