Maya Angelou

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

"I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost."

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

"In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age."

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

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

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."