Oprah’s Stanford commencement speech 2008.

Lesson 1:

Harness your power to your passion. Let internal motivation be the driver. What will set you apart will be our hearts and brains, when you do what you love you will bloom. If you don’t know what you are doing or where you are going, get still. Listen to yourself – only your inner-self knows more.

Lesson 2:

If  you fail, it’s your cue and time to change course. If you don’t learn from your failures, it will come back in a different form. What ever you resist persists.

Ask yourself: What is here to teach me? Merge with the situation and act with responsibility.

Lesson 3:

Happiness. Live and be in the moment. Whatever has happened in your past can’t control what you do now. Stand for something grater than yourself. To move forward, give something back.

Martin Luther King: “Not everyone can be famous. But everyone can be great, because greatness can be determined by service. You only need a heartful of grace and a soul generated by love.”