Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

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.

I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.