Empathy

When a grown man says he wants a cookie, he wants a cookie. The art of doctoring is negotiating with hope.

You will not always be the goal scorer. And when you are not, you better be rushing toward her.

When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials... 'you can give 25 cents, save a child's life.' And I would think to myself, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save all the kids in Africa. And I would say to myself, 'when I grow up, when I can get rich, I'mma save kids all over the world.'

You don't have to be rich to be a humanitarian. You don't have to be rich to help somebody. You don't gotta be famous. You don't even have to be college-educated.

It starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood. You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can.

My grandmother always used to say, if you've got a dollar, there's plenty to share.

Tear down this mirror that makes you always look at yourself and you will be able to look beyond this mirror and see the millions of people that need your help.

In the end, we are not going to be remembered for how much we made but for how much we have given. Make sure that it is not about 'me.' That it is about 'we.' Turn the 'me' into 'we,' and I guarantee you that you can change the world.

Ubuntu — it means 'I am because of you.' Success in business and in life is best when it's shared.

There are times to lean in and there are times to lean on.

You are my other self. We are one. I am another yourself. The Mayans just had a more beautiful way of saying we're all in this together.

I was born in Iran. At the age of six, my family was forced to flee because of the Iranian Revolution. Today I stand in front of you giving the commencement speech at one of the top universities in America. I am the American dream.