Todd Williams Executive-in-Residence Lecturer
“The one thing you can choose every day is your disposition. If you wake up every day and believe that people in America are generally anti-(insert any group here), somebody will say something to you that will validate that every day, and you can go through life with a big chip on your shoulder. If you believe men are sexist or people are homophobic, you can wake up every day and wait for somebody to make you angry. Or, you can believe that every day is a gift from God, and every day is an opportunity for you to do something extraordinary, to see something that will put a smile on your face, and you will live a life of joy.”
– Ambassador Ron Kirk ’76,
former U.S. Trade Representative, senior of counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher