The child is father of the 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.

Unless I was delirious from my injury, we had just been captured by vampires. Who were they, and what did they intend to do with the rest of us?

Do it again.Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it

Hey, religious nuts! Please do not grow up. Just go up!

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.