Follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means, you should follow that.
speech graduation passion
Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way.
speech graduation authenticity
Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
Really when I look back on it, I wouldn't change a thing. I mean, it was so important for me to lose everything because I found out what the most important thing is — to be true to yourself.
speech graduation authenticity
Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009