Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

I often get letters quite frequently from people who say how they like the programmes a lot but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

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.