"It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts."

“We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.”

“Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.”

Source : "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2011.

“My literary success meant nothing to me”

“We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.”

“This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and religion that each fresh conquest of science ever more luminously confirms, so that one may say that those who speak of the incompatibility of science and religion either make science say that which it never said or make religion say that which it never taught.”

“I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.”

“Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”