Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences,... - Maya Angelou

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

"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"

"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."

"All great achievements require time."

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."