Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

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.

Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.

You can not hide on an island and expect that water will not find you.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.