Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

A good teacher like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention then he can teach his lesson.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade but it didn't go so well. Later I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is therefore a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.