Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person--not a fleshly person, but a person nonetheless. (page iii)
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We...
You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.
The hardest person to wake up is the person who is already awake.
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionate...
The name Aziza is of Arabic origin and means precious. I call her Sitti, the Arabic village word for my grandmother. Although Sitti stands true to her name, someone is always telling her she isn’t precious. As she grows into womanhood, Sitti hides ...
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.
Personal liberty is not personal license.
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me...
I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.
