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.

As the economy faces such difficulties more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong easy to do right.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government one of the richest on Earth is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.