Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway."

"The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love."

"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution."

"Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."

"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

"You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned"