When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some
Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.
The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
Advice to persons about to marry - don't
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.
When you disclose something really personal in hopes that the person will then disclose something personal, too? It's all there on camera, your techniques that everyone can see through.
A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.
How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.
I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.
One person can keep a secret, but not two.