It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was man aus uns gemacht hat, sondern darauf, was wir aus dem machen, was man aus uns gemacht hat.

Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

[W]e only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

We separate. We oppose. We dramatize. We exaggerate. We add colors. We make it beautiful. We make it ugly. We separate.

distinguish between your own and not your own, the things which are in your power and not in your power,

From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.

What we do with what we have tends to be far more important than what we have in the first place.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

There are people," he said, "who give, and there are people who take. There are people who create, people who destroy, and people who don't do anything and drive the other two kinds crazy. It's born in you, whether you give or take, and that's the way you are.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.