To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid that we need to hang onto our faith the most.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.