You cannot authentically live anyone's life but your own. That is the deal life offers us.
speech graduation authenticity
Gabrielle Giffords
Scripps College Commencement 2009, 2009
Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.
speech graduation passion
Gabrielle Giffords
Scripps College Commencement 2009, 2009
Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
speech graduation courage
Gabrielle Giffords
Scripps College Commencement 2009, 2009