For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.