Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat. - John Lewis

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Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. — Shigeo Shingo

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Open your mind before your mouth

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There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair. - John Lewis

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out. - John Lewis

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We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. -Michael Jackson

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