I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.
Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it's a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.
