“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”

“Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return”

“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.”

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”

“People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”