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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.

No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting up another person.

The world needs your energy, your passion — it doesn't need your indifference.

The way to be happy is to like yourself, and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.

The measure of success is what you think about what you've done. Not the doing well, nor the failure — but what you think about it.

The important thing in life is to follow your passion — no matter what it is — for whatever mysterious reasons.

Your job is to witness. To witness, to understand, to comprehend, and to celebrate. To celebrate with your lives.

A people is defined and unified not by blood but by shared memory.

When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.

Why write your own material when others have done it for you? Don't worry about being caught. If you have to apologize, just say, 'An error was made.' Nobody cares.

We have a responsibility not to be prisoners of history, but to shape history; a responsibility to fill the role of pathfinder.

This is your time. Take it on. Don't be afraid to lean into the wind, love the earth in all of its natural glories and take care of each other.