For a hundred years I breathe and live, the flower of beauty and the bread of kindness. I am your friendly shade in the noonday heat of summer, and I stand pencilled against the winter twilight, a silhouette for dreams. At dawning in the spring I am filled with song, the host to a thousand birds, and I decorate the autumn with pageantry and colour.Then comes the woodsman with his axe.And still I serve.I am the timber that builds your boat; the rafters of your cathedrals; the choirstalls of your church enriched by the magic of the carver's fingers. I am the beam that holds your house; the door of your homestead, and the lintel too. I am the handle of your hoe; the wood of your cradle; the bed on which you lie; the board of your table and the board for your bread.When I am living, harm me not.When I am dead, respect me and use me kindly.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Mark Twain

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

David Hockney

You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Shawn Ashmore

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven

Samuel Johnson

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

George Bernard Shaw

Your mind can't control what your heart wants. The heart hasn't anything to do with what's logical. It just wants love.

Erika Zakariasson

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht