Stephen Colbert

It's time to say goodbye to the person we've become, we've worked so hard to perfect, and to make some decisions about who we're going to be.

From now on, you will be your own teacher, your own guide, your own critic. From now on, you fill out your own report card. Be an easy grader. Score yourself on a curve.

Get ready for my generation to tell you everything that can't be done. They should know — they can't be done. After all, we're the ones who didn't do them.

You must always make the path for yourself. There is no secret society out there that will tap you on the shoulder one night and show you the way.

If you must find your own path, and we have left you no easy path, then decide now to choose the hard path that leads to the life and the world that you want.

Your life will not be defined by the society that we have left you. Every generation must define itself, and so make the world that suits itself.

You cannot win your life. And like improv, you cannot win your life.

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

You will truly serve only what you love, because service is love made visible.