We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings.

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.

If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

Had I just made a date with a tatted up bat wielding miscreant?

The reality is that every single person is individual and special. There has never been and will never be another person on the Earth like you!

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

When my girlfriend cooks dinner, I'm happy to do the dishes. Because I make her wash dishes when I take her to a restaurant.

The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.