To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.

I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it's ­beautiful. I'm just not that person.