My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.
When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Be bold, be courageous, be your best.
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.
At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.
Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do.
According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human. . . . And although you don't have complete control over the narrative (no author does, I can tell you), you could nevertheless create it.
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.