"Have a purpose to your life: Purpose..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'”

“Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.”

“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.”

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

“Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.”

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

“The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.”

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.”