The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

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.

Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

We broke the world to make it whole.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.