“The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one o...” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

When I look back at my career so far, hands down my favourite jobs have been directed by or written by women and I don't think that that's an accident.