Gentle

About ninety percent of love is just paying attention.

Graduate now. We are pushing you out of the tub, out of the nest, out into the world, a world which we think that you will find is at least your older brother and a place where you belong.

Have the courage to accept that you're not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that's OK.

Sometimes the circumstances at hand force us to be braver than we actually are, and so we knock on doors and ask for assistance.

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

We have so much more that unites us than divides us.

We need to develop cultures of peace, and cultures of peace require that we learn to listen to each other, that we learn to dialogue with each other, that we learn to respect each other.

I'm doing the best I can.

There is more in any human being to celebrate than to denigrate.

When someone close to you dies, it is not the big moments you remember, but small moments. If you can notice these moments, breathe them in, even for a second, on your way to the courtroom, or the office, then you have achieved success.

Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

The biggest mistake you can make is to be complacent and think that you have lots of extra time on your hands. You might, but you also might not.