Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Patience has all the time it needs.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

What you can't pay back you pay forward.

I kid because I'm on basic cable.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.