my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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.

Any day stands equal to the rest.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.

The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.