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.

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.

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

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

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

I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything.

Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.