“What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.”
“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
“Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”