Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Truth is the correspondence between mind and reality."

"Freedom is the ability to become yourself."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."

"Nature is the teacher of all teachers."

"Art expresses what words cannot."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"Faith is a wager on ultimate meaning."

"Leadership is service to a greater purpose."

"Work ennobles the spirit."

"Dreams are the blueprints of reality."

"Humor is the recognition of the incongruous."

"Beauty awakens the soul."

"Death is the gateway to transformation."

"Perseverance is the hallmark of character."

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

"Nothing is profane for those who know how to see."

"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Surrender yourself to the divine current and you will be borne to safety."

"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."

"The only real disaster is to be out of tune with reality."

"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of cosmic forces."

"The fact of my being born into this universe at this moment in time is no accident."

"The more we understand the universe, the greater becomes our sense of awe and wonder."

"When the storm passes, the sea and the air become clear."

"To grow, we must transcend what we were."

"Matter and spirit are not two things, but two aspects of one reality."

"Every element of the universe is precious because it forms part of the whole."

"The divine milieu is everywhere, in all things."