Quotes on Persons

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.