And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

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.

Your silences remain

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.