People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

A true friend freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.

Every therapeutic cure and still more any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.