The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.
Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.
My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I’ll know more when the time comes.
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
But man invents nothing God did not create first.
But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
The first step to becoming is to will it.
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
If I’d never have picked up the first person, I’d never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.
I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.