"Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
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"You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do."
"Happiness is inside you, not with another person"
"There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take."
"Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon."
"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."
"It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it."
"To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do."
"A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships."
"The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves."
"There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"I have inner peace. It's a different person."
"A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is."
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
"The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person."
"The only person I can change is the one in the mirror."
"A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream."
"The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future."
"When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace."
"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."