Graduation

Whether you think the world is out to hurt you or help you — you're right.

Embrace your inexperience and keep taking leaps forward.

Anybody can toss their hat in the air. But few have dared to make it actually fly.

Feel whatever you feel, all that you feel, and then keep going.

While perfection is elusive, humanity is certain. And it will get you where you want to go, where you need to be.

Channel your emotion into determination. Find exhilaration in the repetition. And put all of yourself into this role of a lifetime.

You are more than one thing. You are more than many things. You are everything.

You are not your circumstance. Where you start out in life doesn't have to determine where you'll end up or just how far you can go. Only you can determine your distance.

Service is the rent we pay for living on God's Earth.

Most of the shadows in one's lifetime come from standing in one's own sunshine.

In just a few moments, you will take an oath — not to a person, not to a political party, but to the Constitution.

The power of America's military not only rests on our technology, our weaponry, our hardware. It rests on the character and the resolve of our people.