“Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.”
“What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.”
“Finishing first is nothing to brag about.”
“The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.”
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
“If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.”