Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

Richard Shelby

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

Steven Spielberg

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Renata Adler

The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me!

Michael Barbarulo

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Jules Renard

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Catherine Deneuve

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

Leona Lewis

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Richard M. Nixon

Only the insecure strive for security.

Wayne Dyer