Wonder

You don't have to win to be part of something truly magical.

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

You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big.

When people show unhidden joy in their accomplishments and good fortune and blessings, witnessing it feels almost intimate, and that is why all graduations, for all the pomp and ceremony and brass bands, all of them are so personally moving every year.

We are the only species that can learn to think like another of our own species; the only one that records and remembers its history; the only one that tries to decipher the laws of the universe.

When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials... 'you can give 25 cents, save a child's life.' And I would think to myself, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save all the kids in Africa. And I would say to myself, 'when I grow up, when I can get rich, I'mma save kids all over the world.'

The universe may seem like a lonely place sometimes, but there are as many you's as there are stars in the sky. Maybe one of them will step up at the right time and tell you what to make of it all.

If you are lucky, you will never lose the sensation of terror that precedes discovery, nor the delight that follows.

I am an infinite being with infinite possibilities.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who will do the things that no one can imagine.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and possibility — all in one.

The right reason to go to college is so you can find new ways to awe yourself by reflecting on how fascinating the world we live in is. We are actually on a giant rock hurling through space. It's a crazy interesting world we are living in.