I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today
were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do
today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a
row, I know I need to change something.
He closes with “On the back cover of their final issue [of The Whole
Earth Catalog] was a photograph of an early morning country
road, the
kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
Beneath it were the words: ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’ It was
their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to
begin anew, I wish that for you.”