I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and this will always be "the man in the street. " Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God. . . the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.