On Being Imaginative, Resilient, and a Good Ancestor: Excerpts from Graduation Speeches

Compiled by SUSANNAH TULLY

J.K. Rowling, author, at Harvard University:

Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore...