“[Our policy] has always been to deal first with matters which are easiest to resolve and leave the most difficult ones until last.”

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 229
Paper Towns (2008)

Source: Spiritual Perspectives And Human Facts

Source: Dynamic administration, 1942, p. 2

The Books in My Life (1952) Preface (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 12)

Source: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Variant: For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Context: People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Edit comment http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules&diff=70516723, removing attempts to minimize the significance of the Wikipedia:Ignore all rules policy statement (19 August 2006)