Once you know math really good, you will see things in a different light. It will help me financially because I will go to college and do things that I never thought of.

It's been positive for them. When they go to high school, that's where it will be more challenging. Like I said, I didn't know how to divide, so when they get older, I'll know how to teach them. That's where it will start.

It's hard with homework and things like that. I don't really have time to set out and make a schedule. I mainly try to focus when I'm here, but I'm doing good overall.

I had seen the advertisement at the Department of Human Services. I didn't know what Families First was all about. When I went there, in order to get the benefits, you had to go to school, and I never thought about getting my GED or improving myself to go to college. Ever since I came, I've considered that.

Neither sheep nor mavericks will ever get to the head of the class. Ignorance is forgivable, unorthodoxy is tolerated. Bad taste and expulsion are synonymous.

If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.