The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

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.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

War pacifies itself.

I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.