Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, 'Morning, boys. How's the water?'

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

It is the hard days--the times that challenge you to your very core--that will determine who you are.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

If you get, give. If you learn, teach.

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Why not you?

Success is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.

I am not throwing away my shot.

History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.

She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

And there is no greater cliché in a commencement address than 'follow your dream.' Well I am here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change. And that's okay.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.

Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

And I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.