Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.