I understand that in these difficult economic times the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses not expand them.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand because President Bush has cut funding.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling stolen generations issues family relationships violence suicide prevention.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy which is something I think no one wants.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Before the boat docked however he confessed because he was contemplating running for president he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

It was physically difficult adjusting to wheelchair life but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful difficult but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy and great things in that which is small.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class which is why I don't often do them.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.