“The best of the people are the first to greet others.”

On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do,

So he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.

A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.