"The desire to reach for the stars..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

“Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?”

“The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.”

“The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.”

“To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".”

“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”

“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”