Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you... - Maya Angelou

"Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"All great achievements require time."

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

"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."