“People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what makes us what we are.”
“After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?”
“On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.”
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
“What we do belongs to what we are, and what we are is what becomes of us.”
“most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.”