The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us yet the worst in us.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language.

But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics nor all logic but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically it doesn't hurt to be good-looking especially in this business.

It's really interesting with art-movies too but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

Unfortunately the attitude of many towards the press humanitarians included and especially government workers is often one of suspicion if not outright fear.

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement less confrontation less tense attitude especially in the region.

The money is in a different league these days of course but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that since almost no one will be selling art artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

To say nothing especially when speaking is half the art of diplomacy.