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Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life — music, paintings, theater, stains and sunsets.
speech graduation simplicity

Eric Carle

Bates College Commencement 2007, 2007

We are all mortal. What divides us is the use we make of the time and opportunities we have.
speech graduation mortality

Madeleine Albright

Wellesley College Commencement 2007, 2007

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

Tony Snow

Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007

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

Tony Snow

Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007

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

Ray Sidney

Edwin O. Smith High School Commencement 2007, 2007

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

Paul Hamer

Park Tudor School Commencement 2007, 2007

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

Katie Couric

Williams College Commencement 2007, 2007

There is no substitute for hard work, for doing well at the job you're in.
speech graduation discipline

Katie Couric

Williams College Commencement 2007, 2007

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

Ann Patchett

Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006

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

Ann Patchett

Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006

Do not waste it trying to become someone you're not. Use it to become who you are already.
speech graduation authenticity

Jodie Foster

University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006

My commandment is, 'Thou shall not stand idly by.' When you witness an injustice, don't stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere.
speech graduation justice

Elie Wiesel

Dartmouth College Commencement 2006, 2006