"Whatever you've been until today is already over, and while you can almost always learn from it, and sometimes change effects that are continuing into the present, you cannot undo what you have done."

"My belief is that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian be Christ like. Don't be Buddhist be Buddha like."

"You will never win if you have to prove that you are the winner."

"In a world of individuals, comparison is a senseless activity."

"Mom ran her fingers through my sweaty hair and looked deep into my eyes. "Sean," she asked quietly, "is this going to be a gift or a burden?" A gift? A Gift? Gifts come on your birthday. You open them up and say "Woo hoo!" Was she crazy? But before I could say anything, something magical happened. Something I can't explain with science. My calling and purpose in life came and found me."

"My parents did a tremendous job in raising me and my sister. It seemed as if they always had just the right things to say to us. One nugget of wisdom that empowered me through most of my teens was this: "Sean, there are many things you won't be able to do in your life because of your physical condition, so get busy finding the things you can do.""

"I've been asked on many occasions, "Sean, don't you get used to the pain after a while?" "No," I reply, "at best, I understand how to control it." Surprisingly, the physical pain of the condition has not been as torturous as the emotional pain."

"As senior women in your organizations, every single one of you in this room has influence,"

"I'm self-aware enough that when I walk into that Birmingham board room, I know I have to be able to connect with those men so they will hear me," she said. "It's about speaking and showing up in a way that your listeners will hear you, embrace you and act upon what you say."

"You need to understand that you have it, and that you can use it. Because what you do not use, you will definitely lose. You got here because you earned that seat at that table. Don't give away your power by ignoring that fact."

"“Expect to Win” and “Strategize to Win,"

"I know those boys in Birmingham can't handle the Full Frontal Carla that I am in New York City,"

"We are blessed so that we may be a blessing to others.""

"Leadership has transformed from oversight to insight,”"

"Leaders, hear me clearly. "If you don't trust them, they won't trust you."

"There is a measure of creating the culture that happens with proximity,” Harris told The Informer,” proximity breeds familiarity, and familiarity fosters mentorship.”"

"It’s not an either-or type of thing,"

"“Lead to Win”"

"Lead to Win,” is a concise and charismatic effort that promotes leadership reflection."

"Never count yourself out."

"Make sure your voice is in the room. "Then you can use silence as power and convey messages by the look on your face—the way the boys do."

"Say 'I see you,' and invite them to join the conversation. Everyone values being heard.""

"Everybody Is Somebody's Child." "No matter how different we seem, we need to identify what we have in common," Harris said. "And one of those things is that everyone is somebody's child."

"People who are in the seats of leadership are boomers and beyond, and they grew up in a very different leadership context.” The ‘my way or the highway’ attitude does not work for millennials and they, “demand, as table stakes, transparency, inclusivity and feedback.”"

"Give your influence away," she urged her listeners. "Amplify your impact by creating other leaders. Think of yourself as a kingmaker, a queenmaker." Invest in the success of the people in whom you see potential, she continued, because building one another up goes both ways. "You won't be successful if your people don't believe in you, so you have to invest in their success as well."

"One of the most valuable things you can do as an influential leader is to listen,"because people will always tell you what they value and what they want. When you know that, you can deliver—and then you can make the sale."

"The program instills value based-entrepreneurship and encourages entrepreneurs to develop solutions for existing challenges and progress further."

"Akenshi iyo abantu basohotse muri iyi gahunda bagenda bavuga ngo ndumva nongerewe imbaraga zo kumenya uko ikigo cyanjye nakiyobora."

"Entrepreneurship isn’t just entrepreneurship"

"In the long run, Rwanda can only be successful if Rwandan entrepreneurs can make most of the opportunities that come with foreign investment; and vice versa."

"Foreign investments tend to raise the standards of professionalism resulting in better products and better services, enticing Rwandan entrepreneurs to do the same. Foreign investment also creates new supply and complementary markets for Rwandan entrepreneurs can occupy. Foreign investments and local entrepreneurship are therefore strongly interlinked. In the same way as a tree cannot grow in a desert, foreign investment cannot succeed without a vibrant small and medium entrepreneurship ecosystem."

"Ntabwo tuba twifuza ko bahava babyumva gusa ahubwo tuba dushaka ko bakura nk’abantu, ku buryo bumva bibahaye ingufu n’umwete ku buryo n’uwari ufite ibibazo ataha yishakamo ibisubizo."

"You are not in competition with anyone else in life. You get to run your own race."

"If you have medicine that could change someone’s life, you are honor-bound to share it."

"An investment can be compared to planting seeds. It comes with the expectation that something grows out of it."

"And my biggest error starting out was being afraid to be genuinely myself and put myself out there."

"I am living proof that you may be shy, introverted or maybe even a bit anxious and can still put your voice in the world. Your voice matters."

"When growing from 5 or 10 employees to 50 or 80 employees, entrepreneurs find themselves confronted with a whole new set of challenges."

"For local entrepreneurs, foreign investment poses both a threat and an opportunity. The obvious threat is that the international high-level competitors will drive them out of the market because of the expertise and financial resources that are available to them. But there are also numerous opportunities."

"The mindset and decision you make plays a crucial role in overcoming business failure. But it all starts with a person’s willingness to change, working with others, and learning from experienced entrepreneurs across the globe. Entrepreneurship is a journey that can’t be walked alone"

"You have a sacred duty to put your magic in the world. Your voice matters"

"The pathway for inclusion, opportunities and leadership being created for Women in Africa is changing. We are seeing more women demonstrate competence, resilience and confidence in leadership and we look forward to even more."

"There is need for collaboration amongst artistes and other stakeholders in the industry in order to pitch impact oriented and sustainable projects."

"I don’t really believe in mistakes because our missteps are often our greatest teachers."

"I think that sometimes we're kind of trying to hurry through our devotional life or hurry through our prayer time, and we're just trying to finish so that we can check something off on a box that says we did it"

"I'm hoping that people will be reminded about the importance of strategy in our prayer life, intentionality about it"

"That's what sends the enemy to flight is God's Words, not our words"

"The fun of living with a , like — progressive meaning you lose vision slowly over time as your retina, a very important piece of the eye, and its function deteriorates, aka breaks down. So you slowly lose the ability to see. I was born legally blind, so I've always been legally blind — though I consider my childhood my quote sighted years because I could see color, I could read print, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then when I was a child, I slowly would go through spurts of losing vision, and then having my vision stabilize. The majority of my vision loss, which is what I consider myself to have gone blind, is when I was fourteen years old. That was the most significant rapid chunk of my vision loss."

"I don't want to make it seem like once you get to the self-acceptance phase — life is good now! Or once you learn how to cope and accommodate yourself and gain all your skills — life is good now! I don't wanna paint that picture — because, frankly, it's just not true."

"He is so joyful all the time. You know, he made me laugh, he made me smile, and I needed that, and it endeared me to him. But I'm not gonna be like, "Oh, I loved him." I didn't. I didn't. I liked him the way I would like a friend's dog, but he didn't feel like my dog. He felt like a stranger that I was sleeping with. And it's kind like losing the love of your life and starting to date straight away. Like putting this bandaid on a gaping wound — but it's hard to fall in love in the midst of healing."