Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.
When we long for life without difficulties remind us that oaks grow strong...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.