Graduation

You can spend your life tripping on yourself. You can also spend your life tripping yourself up. Get out of your own way.

Talent is really the gift of love. Talent happens when you are in love with something and you devote your life to it, and it's your love of it that makes you want to keep doing it.

An individual was walking down the street and saw a gentleman chipping away on some stones. He said, 'What are you doing?' The gentleman grumbled, 'I'm building a stone wall.' He continued down the street and saw a second gentleman chipping stones. 'What are you doing?' This gentleman said, 'Well, I'm building a cathedral.'

The road to success can be much more fun than success itself. Define and enjoy many small successes along the way.

The most valuable asset of an organization is its people, and people working together as a team toward a shared vision is the real key to success.

We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion — and for precisely the same reason articles of fashion are worn, which is to make the wearer look better and to feel a la mode.

An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others. It required no intellectual effort whatsoever. Suddenly he was elevated to a plane from which he could look down upon ordinary people.

You are graduates of one of the two or three greatest universities in America. You have been raised in a tradition of straight thinking and straight talking.

Never be so canny as to ignore the uncanny.

Who is my neighbor? My neighbor is all mankind.

Even Terminus, the god of limits, refused to recognize that limits are everything. The open sky above his head testified to his yearning to escape the ground beneath his feet.

To whom much is given, much is expected.