Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success.

Stephen Richards

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

Judy Collins

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jan Schakowsky

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

Les Brown

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

Ruth Gordon

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

Prince Philip

He's as cool as a prized marrow!

Sid Waddell

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Edith Piaf