"Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”

“I like to know what's happening.”

“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.”

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them”

“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”

“Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.”

“As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”

“Those who are fear'd, are hated.”

“The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.”