Quotes on Commencement Speech

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

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.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.