An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

at wits' end.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month-- Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century Thanksgiving (U.S.) Here [Mark11:27-33] they discerned a flaw, a heresy; and they would force Him either to make a fatal claim, or else to moderate His pretensions at their bidding, which would promptly restore their lost influence and leadership. Nor need we shrink from confessing that our Lord was justly open to such reproach, unless He was indeed Divine, unless He was deliberately preparing His followers for that astonishing revelation, soon to come, which threw the Church upon her knees in adoration of her God manifest in flesh.

I play with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it does.

People are like tea bags - You have to put them in hot water before you know how strong they are!

Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies.

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.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.