Maya Angelou

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

We’re so infatuated with studying labels that we forget to read between the lines of one another.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Live, let live, and help live

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.