Harvard commencement speech Quotes

“Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre)”

“If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?”

“I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.”

“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment.”

“The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.”

“The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.”

“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”