Frank McCourt

Find what you love, and do it. If you don't love what you're doing, you're dead.

I had to take off the teacher mask, which so many of us put on at the beginning; the mask that says: 'Well, I'm the teacher and I know it all. You sit there and I'll tell you.'

From fear to freedom. That's it. To free yourself of the stuff that's been imposed on you.