Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.