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Remember when life brings challenges — it also brings opportunity!

Make it about the power of we! Because, if you do, you'll have a lot more than 'things worth having' — you'll have 'a life worth living.' And you can write that one down in pen.

Passion, not profit, should always be your guide.

The road to success is a long, winding road that is littered with wreckages of promising careers that crashed and burned. It's not a pretty thing to see talent wasted, it's even sadder to waste it yourself.

Hang your diploma on the wall and do some traveling. It is time to see the world.

Take a minute and just enjoy life. Sniff those roses, you guys. Sniff deep. Don't just rush into life's next chapter. You just climbed a mountain — twelve years of nose to the grindstone.

I don't know jack diddly squat about nothing. I'm just a really good-looking rocker that stumbled into a tremendous acting career.

Don't go to college. It's super expensive and super hard. Seriously, don't waste your time and money unless you want to be a doctor, then I totally get it. No one's going to let you take out their spleen unless you have a degree. The rest of you, go read some books.

You can't control how smart you are, how funny you are, how good-looking you are. The one thing you can control in your life is how hard you work.

The one way to guarantee you're not going to be successful at something is to give up on it. Really ambitious goals — starting a theater company, running for Congress, opening an art gallery in Prague. These things are hard. But even the hardest goal is not that hard.

Dare to say out loud the thing that you actually want and the hard part is actually over. Because then you'll start to make a plan, and when you have a plan, then you'll start to make that plan real.

Never let others define you. Define yourselves.