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.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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

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

All great achievements require time.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

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 is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

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.

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

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.

God always has patience.

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.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

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

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

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

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

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

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

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Life is anything but predictable.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

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.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

I have little bones.

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.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

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

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

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

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

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!

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.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

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.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

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

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

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