“It is so much easier not to do things than to do them that you would do anything is totally remarkable.”

“I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine?”

“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”

“Q: I understand that to walk the path one must do it alone. Why is it so much easier to do a yoga class in a group rather than to have the discipline of doing it alone?”

“Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”

“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”