“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” -Samuel Johnson “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.” -Samuel Johnson “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.” -Samuel Johnson “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” -Samuel Johnson “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” -Samuel Johnson “What is written without…

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin   “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin   “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.” ― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin   “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the…

“. . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize that the proper measure of success is not how much you’ve closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you’ve done today.” ― Sonia Sodamayor   “When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become–whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any…