You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
-Philip Pullman
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
-Vincent van Gogh
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
-Thomas Jefferson
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
-Michael Le Boeuf
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.