Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things man will not himself find peace.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

I've always been a person with patience and I don't like to force things.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

I haven't been given many things but I've been given ample limitless patience.

My biggest weakness is patience wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to or you don't have inspiration it will come.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

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

As for goals I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Have patience with all things But first of all with yourself.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh blah blah blah I'm wearing Hermes blah blah blah I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need a tribe recognition: 'Ahh my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively from a distance and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world and at myself from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Nothing in the universe is contingent but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.