“It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”

“The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.”

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

“When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”

“Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.”

“That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.”

“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”

“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”

“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”

“Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает.”