Recently J. K. Rowling gave the commencement speech at the Harvard University talking about failure and the power of imagination. You can read the full text, watch the video or download the audio here. You can download the video here at the leaky cauldron. As always one of the best.

“I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”