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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short-term gain over lasting achievement is precisely what your generation needs to help end.

Great necessities call out great virtues. We live in a time of great necessities — a time when we cannot avoid the burdens of global leadership.

Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations.

Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

I believe that if people are not laughing at your ambitions and your goals, then your dreams are not big enough.

A lot of other folk will tell you that the sky is falling. I will not tell you that the sky is falling. I will say that those are pennies from heaven. Because I've seen this movie before and I know how it turns out.

Trust yourself. Dig deep down and ask yourselves, who do you want to be? Not what, but who.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You push yourself because you believe in yourself and in your vision.

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.

Find the courage to do things you are not ready to do. Doing something you are not ready to do isn't comfortable. But in pushing through this discomfort you will learn a lot more about yourself.

Recognize that you are the change you seek. You are the great agents of change in the world. You can adapt, you can embrace, you can respond in ways that will better your life and better the life of your society. You cannot ignore them. You cannot fight them. But what you can do is adapt and make the world a better place.

Not knowing is just as important, if not more important, because you do not know yet what can't be done.