A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.