Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

I am not what you see and hear.

every failure is also a victory.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.