“If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!”
“It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.”
“And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.”
“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.”
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
“They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.”