Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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.

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.