Maya Angelou

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

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

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

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

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

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