Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

I think that comic followers are always waiting for key iconic moments.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.