you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go.

And the question is, whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint.

I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life’s blueprint.

Number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your

own worth and your own somebodiness.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody.

Always feel that you count.

Always feel that you have worth,

And always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Secondly, in your life's blueprint, you must have as a basic principle the determination

to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.

You're going to be deciding as the days and the years unfold what you will do in life,

what your life's work will be.

Once you discover what it will be, set out to do it and to do it well.

Well life for none of us has been a crystal stair

but we must keep moving, we must keep going.

If you can’t fly, run.

If you can’t run, walk.

If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail.

If you can’t be the sun, be a star.

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail,

Be the best of whatever you are.