Maya Angelou

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

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

We have more than we use.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.