"If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up."
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"Fear is just faith in the wrong person."
"Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers."
"Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person."
"I'm a deeply superficial person."
"If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things."
"...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons."
"I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency."
"Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious."
"Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other."
"Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it."
"To the person who is afraid, everything rustles."
"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."
"I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition."
"You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them."
"I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections."
"You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them."
"Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor."
"I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties."
"Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?"