Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.