The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Love is the one wild card.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I don’t see anything that’s come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

He that can have patience can have what he will.