What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.

Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose in pictures with her and cheer when her name was called? In her mind, she only saw pictures they would never take, arms around each other, her mother gaining little wrinkles around her eyes from smiling so much.

We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn’t have any letup in him.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.

Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. 'She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though. I can wear them to, like, truck stops at night with mascara running down my cheeks and stuff.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

Education has become a ritual... Hence done by all parents... I don't see people with degrees acquired in 16-18 years know their subjects... So what's the point to feed schools with money... Our system makes every thing commercial and ritualistic... It's about security of work as it used to be in 50s to 80s... When the graduates were less... But now degree is not a promise for success... Education should create better performing humans and not Humans performing better in academics.