It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Date of birth: 1942-01-17
Quotes number: 54
Nationality: American
Profession: Athlete
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.