“Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.”

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn’t feel good.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)