"An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice"

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win"

"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy"