You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I wrote you a love letter, and I sent it snail mail. Love is forever, and that’s about how long it’ll take to get to you.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time.

Patience will be on our side.” “I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.