Neil Gaiman Graduation Quotations

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.