Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Pleasure is something you can easily lose the knack of, if you allow yourself to get out of practice.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Patience is the best medicine.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.