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It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
Sep 10, 2025
Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.
I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.
Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.
In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say "congratulations.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A modern school where football is taught.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
People will say you cannot get a job in a down economy. People will say you cannot get a job that you love that will pay you well. People will say you can’t do good and do well. They’re wrong, that’s idiotic advice. People will tell you that you cannot change the world. They’re wrong too.
Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.