You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
- Maya Angelou
Angelou received over 50 honorary degrees from universities around the world, including Harvard, Yale, and Oxford.
- Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.
- Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
- Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others.
- Ability is nothing without opportunity.