I can rush off a cliff or I can build a bridge across it. And if you look around, we seem to be awfully light on bridges these days because we’re incredibly limited on patience.

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

To challenge myself to great things is to patiently and persistently expend myself in enduring all of the little things that make up every great thing.

Sometimes we have to surrender to something if we’re eventually going to have victory over it.

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.