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Your life will never be a straight path.

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything, except my faith.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.

And when you fall throughout life—and maybe even tonight after a few too many glasses of champagne—fall forward.

The point is, every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have guts to fail?

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.

I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition, and the next audition, and the next one.

I want to fall… forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.

You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

Presently, after this was at an end, my mother died, and I was left at liberty to mourn her loss awhile.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.