Courage

I hope you find that sense of mission. Don't turn away from what's painful. Examine it. Challenge it.

Option A is not available. So let's just kick the shit out of option B.

When life tells you no, ask yourself honestly, 'What am I capable of?' And once you know the answer, don't be afraid to let everyone else know it too.

In its passivity and resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reach for something greater.

Construction is far more difficult because it requires the capacity to imagine something new and better, and the willingness to exert ourselves toward building it, even at the risk of failure.

Just to be here, you guys sacrificed and left behind your family, your friends, and your social circles, and started over again from scratch. At your age, even the smallest ripple in a social circle can cause an emotional tidal wave.

Say Yes. Say Yes, And… and create your own destiny.

Never let others define you. Define yourselves.

The world is not a meritocracy, but merit still matters. The world isn't fair, but being fair still matters. The world is unkind, but being kind still matters, perhaps more than anything.

Every day, wake up and say to yourself, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who will do the things that no one can imagine.