“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”

“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”

“Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.”

“I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.”

“It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.”

“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”