“My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature…The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.”

“The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the american dream.”

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”

“The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.”

“It is still hard to believe that a man who sends out the Ten Commandments every year for a Christmas card can be so easy buttoning and unbuttoning.”

“It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down.”

“The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.”

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

“Progressives find it hard to imagine that there are others who in good faith don’t want the better world they’re offering and will fiercely resist it.”

“Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.”