I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

We notice our evolution when we realize that sweeping our problems under the rug is useless.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith

I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

I find words really hard.

This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good

I have no boss but my conscience.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

You keep learning all the time.