The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins

George Orwell

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Romain Rolland

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

J. M. Coetzee

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Leo Burnett

Something you don't want is dear at any price.

Proverb

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

John Le Carr

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Kinky Friedman

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Joel Osteen

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Bono