“I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Bob Beamon
“It is not through school that I learnt of my difference, it is through life itself that I came to know”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“Every human being learn by studying or living! So, who was the better teacher?!”
Philip T. M.
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”
Oscar Wilde
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
