Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life — music, paintings, theater, stains and sunsets.
speech graduation simplicity
Eric Carle
Bates College Commencement 2007, 2007
We are all mortal. What divides us is the use we make of the time and opportunities we have.
speech graduation mortality
Madeleine Albright
Wellesley College Commencement 2007, 2007
The only things that are sure to endure are the artifacts of love. So go out and build as many as you can.
speech graduation love
Tony Snow
Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007
Faith and reason are knitted together in the human soul. So don't leave home without either one.
speech graduation faith
Tony Snow
Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007
Make choices that will make you happy for a long time, rather than just focusing on the next two seconds.
speech graduation wisdom
Ray Sidney
Edwin O. Smith High School Commencement 2007, 2007
The thing you fear most in this life is the thing you will become when you grow old.
speech graduation wisdom
Paul Hamer
Park Tudor School Commencement 2007, 2007
Have the courage to accept that you're not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that's OK.
speech graduation courage
Katie Couric
Williams College Commencement 2007, 2007
There is no substitute for hard work, for doing well at the job you're in.
speech graduation discipline
Katie Couric
Williams College Commencement 2007, 2007
Sometimes the circumstances at hand force us to be braver than we actually are, and so we knock on doors and ask for assistance.
speech graduation courage
Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006
Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
speech graduation faith
Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006
Do not waste it trying to become someone you're not. Use it to become who you are already.
speech graduation authenticity
Jodie Foster
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006
My commandment is, 'Thou shall not stand idly by.' When you witness an injustice, don't stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere.
speech graduation justice
Elie Wiesel
Dartmouth College Commencement 2006, 2006