Graduation

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond preparing to doing.

We keep waiting until we run out of 'untils.' Then it is too late. Our plane has crashed and we haven't done anything about it. We have passed through life without truly exploring its possibilities.

The only things that are sure to endure are the artifacts of love. So go out and build as many as you can.

Faith and reason are knitted together in the human soul. So don't leave home without either one.

Never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer. They have incredible power. It's as if I've been carried on the shoulders of an entire army. And they had made me weightless.

Make choices that will make you happy for a long time, rather than just focusing on the next two seconds.

With hard work you can achieve great goals, but also know that there's more to life than just your career. If all you ever do is work, you will regret it.

Don't think less of someone just because their background differs from yours.

About ninety percent of love is just paying attention.

The thing you fear most in this life is the thing you will become when you grow old.

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.

There is no such thing as failure. What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.