Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.