Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ― Saul Bellow

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When you find out who you are, you find out what you need. – Mama Odie, The Princess and the Frog

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When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you. - John Lewis

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There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there. - John Lewis

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I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it. — Nonito Donaire

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We must be headlights and not taillights. - John Lewis

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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. - John Lewis

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You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Camilla Eyring Kimball

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I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960. - John Lewis

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It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process. - John Lewis

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