yarrr, ye scurvy boy-king, halt ye whinin'

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.

The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindor reunion.

...We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

from J.K. Rowling's Harvard Commencement speech, 2008