Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

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.

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live.

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.