Be a hero in your own life. Do the bold thing, do the honorable thing. Do the thing that flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Do it for the simple heroic reason you feel it's right.
speech graduation courage
Lawrence Kasdan
University of Michigan Commencement 1990, 1990
The hardest thing in the world is to let yourself know what you know. Because life is noisy. Everything we're told, everything about the way we're raised and educated and bombarded by our culture makes noise. And that noise makes it very hard to hear the ticking of our own hearts.
speech graduation authenticity
Lawrence Kasdan
University of Michigan Commencement 1990, 1990
Your good friends from college may be the best friends you ever have. Guard those relationships like gold, work hard to maintain them. When they have a wedding, go across the country to be there. When one of them needs your help, cross the globe to give it to them.
speech graduation relationships
Lawrence Kasdan
University of Michigan Commencement 1990, 1990