If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes