I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

Author: Maya Angelou

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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.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.