Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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.

May we always see life through love-coloured glasses.

There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you and working hard to create a life that you’ve been told you should want.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.