"I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that!..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."”

“We need much less than we think we need.”

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.”

“That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.”

“Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.”

“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.”

“The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.”

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”