“In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

“Richard Heffner: You say "We can create ourselves and our future"
Salk: — by shaping our selves not our cells — thats the important distinction. … We are shaping our cells, but we will not change our selves in the course of shaping our cells.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.”

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.”

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”