“Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.”

“No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.”

“a small spark can start a great fire”

“It'll start with a spark, and a great fire will grow.”

“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”

“The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.”

“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”

“In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.”

“In wrath I strike, and set the dark ablaze
With the immortal spark of thought,
By friction-process brought
Of concentration
And distraction.
The darkness burns
With a million tongues;
And now I spy
All past, all distant things, as nigh.”

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”