"I've had rainbows in my clouds...." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.”

“I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”

“Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.”

“We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.”

“What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?”

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”

“Adversity is the midwife of genius”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”