The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say then always my body comes first.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions that they may not be sinful or so much as seem to be so.

In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second their imagination and third their industry.

Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed to have despaired and have recovered hope.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city or a new love affair.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be the deeper must be its foundation.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.

Really the potential for first of all any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today particularly African Americans. With a college degree today you really breach the unemployment rate.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.