Maya Angelou

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

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

When you know better you do better.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

The honest truth is that every day was new, every day was a challenge, every day was starting from a fresh place, and as time went on, over the course of about two years, things became better and better. But I don’t think that there was for me anything like, ‘Ah, this is taking too long’, because ‘long’ didn’t exist. So I see it as a blessing. I have to laugh. I mean there’s no other way to look at it.