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

- Wes Moore

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 y…

- Wes Moore

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

- Wes Moore

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…

- Wes Moore

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

- Wes Moore

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 expectatio…

- Wes Moore

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

- Wes Moore

I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really bi…

- Wes Moore

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

- Wes Moore