I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

He understands evil better than any other person I’ve ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

You'll never see me in a true New York raincoat, although I own one. You'll never see me wear rainboots. I guess I'm just not a rain person.

If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

I'm not a sexy person. I'm OK with it. I've never been the sexy girl. Whenever I've had a boyfriend, he's always been like, 'Oh, you're cute.'

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you elevate not only yourself but also the one who bears you hatred.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.

I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

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