The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Terry Pratchett

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Liam Neeson

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never takes. You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

Source Unknown

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

Evan Rachel Wood

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

David Livingstone

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

e. e. cummings

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Thomas Arnold

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau