Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard.
- Isabel Allende
You know yourselves how slippery is the path of youth—a path on which I have myself fallen, and which you are now traversing not without fear.
- Jerome
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.