"You meet a better class of person in pubs."
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"A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind."
"The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it."
"An unclean person is universally a slothful one."
"I'm a happy person but an angry citizen."
"I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time."
"He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse."
"In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship."
"I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona."
"Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person."
"Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it."
"Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it."
"Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go."
"A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons."
"An angry person is always full of poison."
"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."
"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."
"I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing."
"Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value."
"A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God."