In life, you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.
speech graduation wisdom
Omid Kordestani
San Jose State University Commencement 2007, 2007
You don't outgrow art. The same work can mean something different at each stage of your life.
speech graduation arts
Dana Gioia
Stanford University Commencement 2007, 2007
Most people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Delaying happiness along with gratification is quite another thing, because each milestone along your path ought to have its own form of happiness.
speech graduation gratitude
Larry Bock
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Commencement 2007, 2007
Between chutzpah and humility lies success. The biggest killer of a good mind is to stick it in a fat head.
speech graduation humility
Larry Bock
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Commencement 2007, 2007
Be kind to others. This is the conclusion of the wise old man on top of the mountain.
speech graduation empathy
Eric Carle
Bates College 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
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.
speech graduation balance
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
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you to another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door.
speech graduation self discovery
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
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.
speech graduation empathy
Wangari Maathai
Connecticut College Commencement 2006, 2006