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
Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She also worked as a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
- Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
- If not us, who? If not now, when?