Courage

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

The story of your lives will be the story of your struggle to be true to the ideas you believe in.

Don't be afraid of change. If something is truly not working and you have sincerely done all you can do to make it work, chuck it and start over.

If you have to be perfect, if you have to make a hundred on the test, you may not take the test.

Feel life in all its pain and mystery. If you can't feel pain, you won't feel joy, either. There's plenty of time to be comatose, like for the rest of eternity.

To live life at its fullest you have to have the chutzpah to accept challenges.

If you never try, you'll never succeed, and as bad as failure feels, success feels so much better.

They discovered that being 'tough' was not so much about going to war, but about choosing to avoid it.

We are too experienced and too well educated to lead our lives as puppets. We cannot afford to listen silently then nod our heads and move on.

We dare not squander our education. We dare not squander our integrity. We must be brave to think critically. We must be free to believe in ourselves.

The best commencement speech I can give you is: We broke it. But here's the good news — you fix it, and it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun.