Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Only the educated are free.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Who seeks shall find.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.