Quotes from Wes Moore

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

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

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

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.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

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

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

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.

The importance of education plays a huge role.