“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
“Here is the truth: It matters, what you do at war. It matters more than you ever want to know. Because countries, like people, have collective consciences and memories and souls, and the violence we deliver in the name of our nation is pooled like sickly tar at the bottom of who we are. ... We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.”
“We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ.”
“It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.”
“It doesn't matter what we are. It matter what we do.”
“It doesn't matter what we choose. It simply matters what we are.”