"We do the best we can with..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”

“The desire to reach hearts is wise”

“It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.”

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”

“Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient. I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.”

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”