Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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.

Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

There's nothing in life you can't accomplish, it's yours to have to be accomplished!

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.

I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.