“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.”
“But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.”
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
“To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty”