„I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.“

— Ben Carson
„What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.“
— Malcolm X
„My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.“
— Jim Butcher
„I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.“
— Paul of Tarsus
„The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„He who was living is now deadWe who were living are now dyingWith a little patience.“
— T.S. Eliot