True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

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.

Two kinds ofpeople will love you:those who confessit, and those whoshow you, likecards on a table, because love isa gamble

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. It’s so clear. Mindfulness is the energy and practice that helps you go back to the here and now so that you encounter life.

The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

Be a gift and a benediction.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.