You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.

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.

Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

Having been here before and lost to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.