“It is easy to be moderate and cool. It is easy to be ignorant and passionate. But to be wise and yet extravagant, to measure all and yet venture all, this is not easy.”
“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.”
“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”
“It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.”
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”