“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

“Given Georgetown’s remarkable history, and that of President Healy, this struck me as an appropriate place to talk about the difficult relationship between law enforcement and the communities we are sworn to serve and protect.”

“It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.”

“The relationship between Iran and the United States is a complicated and difficult question. There is a chronic wound, which is difficult to heal. However, it is not impossible provided there is goodwill and mutual respect between the two countries.”

“The relationship between the brain and the body is similar to that of a master and a slave. There is a lack of effective communication.”

“Civilisation as a term suggests human agency. […] It is the way in which people have articulated how and why they wanted to live in communities. It's about how we imagine the perfect community. […] I think the most ambitious thing humans have ever done is deciding to live together with people whom they didn't know in cities. It's really difficult to build a community, to learn to celebrate difference and to live harmoniously together, and we fail all the time.”

“Even ignorant men seek perfection; perhaps the way is easy.
Not even wise men can be perfect; perhaps the way is difficult.
Easy or difficult, between the two, I do not feel the advance of age.”

“Communication is the secret to all great relationship. If there is no communication there is no relationship.”

“So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.”

“In general, we seem to associate complexity with anything we find difficult to understand.”