Maya Angelou : (12)

" Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. " - Maya Angelou

" It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers. " - Maya Angelou

" It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. " - Maya Angelou

" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. " - Maya Angelou

" Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. " - Maya Angelou

" I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on. " - Maya Angelou

" I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good. " - Maya Angelou

" I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles. " - Maya Angelou

" It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. " - Maya Angelou

" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. " - Maya Angelou