Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation: and the corpuscularian or mechanical philosophy strives to deduce all the phenomena of nature from adiaphorous matter, and local motion. But neither the fundamental doctrine of Christianity nor that of the powers and effects of matter and motion seems to be more than an epicycle ... of the great and universal system of God's contrivances, and makes but a part of the more general theory of things, knowable by the light of nature, improved by the information of the scriptures: so that both these doctrines... seem to be but members of the universal hypothesis, whose objects I conceive to be the natural counsels, and works of God, so far as they are discoverable by us in this life.

Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt Before the sad accounting day.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Never forget what you need to remember.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

It was a wonderful time and I loved every minute of it. We had a great executive producer who was in tune with all of us . . . We had an incredible rapport and I think that's what made us successful.

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?