“All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.”

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone’s adventure is original.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.

A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.