Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly you blink and they're gone and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I mean you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.