Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

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.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.

A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.