Graduation

When you get knocked down — which is plenty often — you get right up in a hurry, just as quickly as you can.

You can pay back only seldom. But you can always pay forward, and you must pay forward.

You can outwork anybody. Try it, and you will find out that you can do it.

When you get knocked down — which is plenty often — you get right up in a hurry. Then you get your strength in the huddle. You get it by going back and running that play together with your teammates. That 'together' is the thing that gives you the buildup to get ready to go again.

Don't send people to do it. Meet them there and help them do it, and you will be amazed how it works.

We don't need to accept this state of affairs and all the other increasingly imposed limitations of our society without a fight.

In a society that systematically limits feelings, I hope you will not be afraid to fight for them.

Chaos is often the first step in the creative process. Don't be afraid of not knowing. The act of searching is as important as the act of finding.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises. I'm sure it comes up in every field of endeavor and every life.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.