Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.