Sheryl Sandberg, Barnard College Commencement 2011

Do not leave before you leave.Fortune favor the bold. "It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution...a clear path to happiness"
"She described a poster on the wall at Facebook: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” She said that it echoed something the writer Anna Quindlen once said, which was that “she majored in unafraid” at Barnard. Sandberg went on, “Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face—and there will be barriers—be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold. I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try. You’re going to walk off this stage today and you’re going to start your adult life. Start out by aiming high. . . . Go home tonight and ask yourselves, What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it! Congratulations.”" Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta#ixzz1lAVsNdcW