Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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 first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.