The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker and they liked us to learn poems by heart which I found I loved doing.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves! Why thirty or forty skins or hides as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands but brains imagination heart maybe.

He is the true enchanter whose spell operates not upon the senses but upon the imagination and the heart.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor admired his uncommon virtue and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.