"The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become."
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"It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has."
"Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment."
"Never be the brightest person in the room."
"I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am."
"Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person."
"I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do."
"Every person dies. Not every person really lives."
"I believe in the person I want to become."
"Never give up your power to another person."
"A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief.""
"Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating."
"I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers"
"I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go."
"The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes."
"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."
"One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison."
"You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life."
"You'll never see a happy ungrateful person."