You should always listen to that God core and care for others, and then you truly will be something special.
speech graduation faith
Dolly Parton
University of Tennessee Commencement 2009, 2009
I had fame and fortune but I was very unhappy. The harder I worked, the more famous I got, the bigger the hole in my heart became.
speech graduation authenticity
Chuck Norris
Liberty University Commencement 2008, 2008
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but the Lord directs his steps.
speech graduation faith
Chuck Norris
Liberty University Commencement 2008, 2008
You know you have a Vincentian heart when you see hope where others feel despair, and light where others see only darkness.
speech graduation empathy
Jennie Cyran
Niagara University 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
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
speech graduation spirituality
David Foster Wallace
Kenyon College Commencement 2005, 2005
We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together. Yin and Yang.
speech graduation love
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford University School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
We live to commune. We live to create. Our enduring biological and spiritual drive is to create, to live in the act of becoming. It is not a choice. It is our experience of our existence.
speech graduation creativity
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
Every day we are called to do small things with great love.
speech graduation love
Barbara P. Bush
Wake Forest University Commencement 2001, 2001
A billion dollars — what's that? It's a backyard barbecue to the Creator of the universe. So give it away. All of it.
speech graduation gratitude
Stephen King
Vassar College Commencement 2001, 2001
Who is my neighbor? My neighbor is all mankind.
speech graduation empathy
Seamus Heaney
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2000, 2000
They are not powerless, the dead.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999