Choices

Being clever is a gift; being kind is a choice...


Tomorrow...your life begins. How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia be your guide or will you be guided by your passions? Will you follow dogma or will you be original? Will you choose a life or ease or a life of service...and adventure? Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions? Will you bluff it out when you're wrong?...or will you apologise? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? When its tough, will you give up or will you be relentless? Will be a cynic or will you be a builder? Will you be clever at the expense at of others, or will you be kind?
- Jeff Bezos at Princeton-U graduation address (May 2010)