“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”

Source: The Name of the Rose (1980)

Source: Letters and Papers from Prison

We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it (6 May 2016)

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Poems, Shadow of Time (2005)

Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 4, "Magelight" (Ged)

2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)
Context: Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character. But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. No single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people.

“They do.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged and Arren)