Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
It was a boy's name first.
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.