"I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person."
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"Don't wait to be led...do it yourself, person to person."
"If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?"
"Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith."
"Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn."
"I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous."
"You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person."
"I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person."
"Instead of looking for the right person become the right person."
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
"The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more."
"If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him."
"You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are."
"Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off"
"There is no person without a world."
"I'm the most stubborn person I know."
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free."
"See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness."
"Desperation can make a person do surprising things."
"How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live."