Rainn Wilson compared happiness to cotton candy in his Baccalaureate ceremony at the University of Southern California (USC).

The school's Baccalaureate Dinner and Ceremony was held Thursday night, May 15. According to USC's website, the ceremony "is a non-denominational, inter-faith celebration open to all students and their guests."

Wilson is an actor who rose to fame portraying Dwight K. Schrute in NBC's now-completed TV show "the Office." In the show, Dwight was a paper salesman at Dunder Mifflin and Wilson was sure to work in a reference into his address.

"Tomorrow you graduates will be receiving a piece of paper - one of the most important pieces of paper you will ever get," Wilson said in his address.

Wilson studied theater at Tufts University and the University of Washington and he has a Masters of Fine Arts from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

"As a member of the Bahá'í faith," Wilson told the USC students and family members, "I believe in the divinity and sacredness of all the world's great spiritual teachers and messengers.

"I hope, for your soul's sake, that this piece of paper you're getting tomorrow leads you on a quest to find your soul and not on a journey to try and gain the whole world-or the Clippers."

Wilson is set to star in a crime drama "Backstrom," to begin airing on Fox in the spring of 2015. He is also the founder of the website Soulpancacke.com, a media company aimed at promoting spirituality, self-evaluation and good deeds.

"Happiness is so fleeting - it's like cotton candy," Wilson said. "It looks amazing, delightful, fluffy and pink. You joyously eat it and almost immediately regret your decision. Your fingers are sticky, you're undergoing an insulin crash from the half-pound of sugar you just sucked down, and you're hungry again almost immediately."