11. If You Think You Can, You Can

 Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

– Julianna Margulies
Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College, 2010

 One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

– J.K. Rowling
Commencement Speech at Harvard University, 2008