There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

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.

We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Ministry is pretty simple. Love people and help them.

Never work with animals or children.

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.