I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary
I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.
One person can change the world.
I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.
If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.
Be the most enthusiastic person you know.
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.
Much of my work has been done in first person.
A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine.
The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!
[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
The quality of a person’s life is the sum total of the character, good or not so good, of the people whom he has inspired and motivated, directly and indirectly, with his living standard and lifestyle.