The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

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.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.