„Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.“

— Jodi Picoult
„Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.“
— Jodi Picoult
„It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.“
— Jane Austen
„One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.“
— Meister Eckhart