If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. - John Lewis

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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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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. - John Lewis

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Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.

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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

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One must be something to do something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

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Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me. - Ruth B

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Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms. — William J. Bennett

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