An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

A life is not a thing unalterable.

.. life - the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event.

But Dr. Kerry was right: it wasn't the clothes that made this face, this woman, different. It was something behind her eyes, something in the set of her jaw-a hope or belief or conviction-that a life is not a thing unalterable. I don't have a word for what it was I saw, but I suppose it was something like faith.