#Difficulty

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later."

"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."

"When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there."

"I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]"