If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

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.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.