"I long, as does every human being,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.”

“I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”

“Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.”

“There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.”

“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”

“The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.”

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”