
“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Senator McCain's announcement speech for his 2008 presidential bid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_presidential_campaign,_2008 (25 April 2007)
Full text of the speech can be found here on The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/us/politics/26mccain_text.html
2000s, 2007
“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”
Amazon.com Interview: Larry Wall http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=7137.
Other
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)