Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Genius is patience.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I didn’t play with other children.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

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.

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

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

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.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

I believe time wounds all heels.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

A jug fills drop by drop.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There’s really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.