Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. ― Peter Deunov

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou

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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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You do not know what you can achieve until you try.

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Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve. - David Muir

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I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. - William Zinsser

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ― Paulo Coelho

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. – Maya Angelou

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. -Maya Angelou

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