Courage

You're gonna fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the number of times you get back up.

You leave this school as well-armed for battle as anyone is. Nobody really knows anything more than you do. Everyone is just making it up as they go along. Figure it out.

Don't be afraid to be a late bloomer. Repeatedly. Remember, you have time to figure out what you want to do, who you need to be, and where you want to go. You have time to fail. You have time to try again.

Do one thing every day that scares you, and in the process, become the action hero of your own life.

I knew what intellectual passion felt like — because I'd felt it here, at Princeton — and I wanted to feel it again. I was 26 years old. Had I waited until I was 36, I would never have done it. I would have forgotten the feeling.

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.

And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

A wonderful curator and the founder of the New Museum in New York named Marsha Tucker said, 'Do what scares you.' Well... it scared me... and I did it.

Use your imagination. Don't be afraid. The failures that we may have will result in success someday.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

You cannot be brave all by yourself. Everybody's got to have a Charlotte. You're going to be Wilbur a lot. You're going to need a Charlotte.

You are imperfect. Your knowledge is never complete. Your skills are never infallible. Yet you have to act. You cannot let yourself become paralyzed by fear — yet you cannot blind yourself to failure either.