„It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.“

— Barack Obama
„You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.“
— Mikhail Bulgakov
„It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.“
— Confucius
„How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.“
— Richard Bach
„Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda
„The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.“
— Emil M. Cioran