"I know that I'm not the easiest..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.”

“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”

“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”

“Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”

“Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.”

“The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.”

“There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.”