Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties humor is the Teflon coating.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith others are the result of Satan's attacks and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

Man learns through experience and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.