Maya Angelou

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

That man is idle who can do something better.

There is only one good – knowledge; and only one evil – ignorance.