Maya Angelou

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenally woman."

"We lived in a museum, and we were taught how to conduct ourselves there."

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

"Loving someone liberates the soul."

"Ask for what you need."

"I am here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is maybe."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Happiness is nothing by coincidence."

"You were given life. It is your job to give it meaning."

"Temper never improves anything."

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and gets caught somewhere in the heart."

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."

"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even skepticism."

"Gather the people who believe in you."

"If a man has to ask, he deserves the answer no."

"I love the Lord. He's been so good to me."

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

"Learn from everything and everyone."

"I believe that each of us is responsible for our own lives."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so that other people would be also free."

"I've got a woman's body and a child's emotions."

"In my experience, talent is always rewarded."

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through."