Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn, Forever,

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

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.”  Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.  ~Orrin Hatch

Don’t live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955