Instead of waxing poetic about graduation and repeating some of my own "sage" advice to recent graduates -- (Remember? Things like "don't drink downstream from the herd" and "don't squat with your spurs on.") -- I thought I'd let others speak to the issue. Some of the following are from unknown sources, and some are from a more respected band of quotable folk. Enjoy.

"The tassel is worth the hassle!" -- Author Unknown

"If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your mother told you." -- Author Unknown

"All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder." -- Author Unknown

"Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues." -- Author Unknown

"I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known." -- Author Unknown

"Put your future in good hands -- your own." -- Author Unknown

"We cannot direct the wind; but we can adjust the sails." -- Author Unknown

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." -- Aristotle

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money." -- Gary Bolding

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin

"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." -- Isabel Waxman

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go." -- Dr. Seuss

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Attributed to Mark Twain.

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." ~ Art Linkletter

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." -- Milton Berle

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." -- Eleanor Powell

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." -- John Wooden

And one of my very favorites …

"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'" -- Jim Fox

May your every day be more blessed than the day before.

Congratulations!