Famous quotes from Maya Angelou

• Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
  
• 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.
  
• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  
• Effective action is always unjust.
  
• I believe that every person is born with talent.
  
• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
  
• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
  
• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
  
• If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
  
• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.