In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

Rob Sheffield

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Tammy Faye Bakker

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

John Mayer

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

George Eliot

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

Jenny Eclair

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Adriana Lima

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Ben Hecht

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Josef Albers

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Herman Kahn