Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

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.

The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Why understand when you can believe?

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.