"Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you."

“I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it.”

“You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.”

“Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.”

“When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.”

“I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.”

Source : " Gabourey Sidibe: 'People look at me and don’t expect much. I Expect a Lot'" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2009.

“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

“Leadership produces change. That is its primary function”

Source : John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

“What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.”