Maya Angelou

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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

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

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

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

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.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.