Gentle

Everyone you need is in this room. These are the shiny, more important people. We can't help it — we burn very brightly. Please don't ever stop.

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.

When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken. Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

In every career, your job is to make and tell stories. You will build a body of work, but you will also build a body of affection—the people you've helped and who've helped you back.

Just hold on and keep loving what you love. And you'll see, in the end, they will let you stay.

At least I get to pursue what I want. That's something not to take for granted—the actual pursuit of happiness.

Your degree will be good for something, just maybe not what you thought originally. If you're open to it, sometimes life presents you with what you're supposed to be.

May you thrive in a way that enhances the justice, and the safety, and the dignity of every person who has made the clothes that you are wearing today.

Remember that you must make the driving force in your life, love.

Live in the present. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift — that's why it is called the present.

You don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.