We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
I'm not an austere person.
I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
