"In his welcoming speeches at Brown University, when my father served there as President, he would tell freshmen, quote: “You are a unique moment in the history of creation. You have to decide what you want to do with your uniqueness. You can be a dot, a letter, a word, a sentence. You can be a paragraph, a page, a chapter, or a book. But what if you decide to be nothing; a blank? If you decide to be the latter, you will be forfeiting the value of your talents, all the knowledge of the universe, and all of the creativity of preceding generations.” End quote. So, to me, looking at all of you tonight, you are all the books in the library of Vartan Gregorian."

Speech by Raffi Gregorian dedicated to his father, Aurora Co-Founder, late Vartan Gregorian at the 2022 Aurora Prize Ceremony.