Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Douglas Sirk

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Thomas Kempis

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Martin Tupper

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Edmond Haracourt

Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

Albert Einstein

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

Cofer Black

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Forbes

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Leo Strauss

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Marcia Wieder