Growth

Amazing things happen when you do hard things. You grow, you become closer to others who share the experience, you become stronger as a person.

By reading, you can have lunch with Ben Franklin, or every great personality in the history of the world. You can in fact have a very long lunch with them.

It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one. It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next.

Your mentors may leave you prepared, but they can't leave you ready.

Dreams come true only if you work hard to make them come true, and they come true not just because of your own efforts but also because other people in your life help you succeed.

Education has a more important value than money. It is deeply important to our growth as people and as a community.

Your mentors may leave you prepared, but they can't leave you ready.

Your life isn't some big break. It's about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time.

I wish someone had told me at my own commencement that the one and only requirement for graduation was that I had to emerge out of the closed, cordoned-off space of my own head. I had to learn to listen.

Don't be scared if you don't do things in the right order, or if you don't do some things at all. If you have a checklist, good for you. Structured ambition can sometimes be motivating. But also, feel free to let it go.

We are not born with a certain amount of resilience. It is a muscle, and that means we can build it.

In some ways, you've always been a creature of chaos. The complications of Act II, which will tip all you have been before into chaos, have been set up and abetted by really clever foreshadowing in Act I, by all those slippery you's over the years.