If you want to lead the world to the freedom you learned here, equality for everyone must mean more to you than domination by anyone. Justice must mean more to you than money. People must mean more to you than fame….Choose reality over image, choose people over personal profits and projects, and choose your own heroes wisely….If you want to be a real leader, you want to give a new kind of leadership, you cannot live to get the approval of a system, you must live to save the soul of it. “The purpose of life,” the essayist Leo Rosten writes, “is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to have it make a difference that you lived at all.”
Stanford University Baccalaureate Address, by Joan Chittister, June 2012.