Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
Lauren Bacall

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

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

A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks