Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)

I think you can judge from somebodys actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, theres a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. – George W. Bush