Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty

The difficulty in life is the choice.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting

It was a very embarrassing thing for them. They really had no choice and I recognized that I was an embarrassment.

[The Bush administration has had difficulty mustering support for the India deal.] The U.S. gave everything India wanted and got little in return, ... They framed the deal as necessary to cement a strategic partnership with India, and then this partner turns around and sides with Iran. That's not very strategic.