"The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being."
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"I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse."
"It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy."
"Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid."
"The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future."
"It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president."
"People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp."
"It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings."
"Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens."
"I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year."
"For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings."
"Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road."
"A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it."
"What I find really difficult is making career decisions."
"Difficult people are the greatest teachers."
"Working with people is difficult, but not impossible."
"It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know."
"If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!"
"For the lazy, all work is difficult."
"Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with."