I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.

God is always at war with sin

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Gratitude is the root of joy.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)