“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.” — Virgil Quote

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

“Death plucks my ear and says, 'Live—I am coming.”

“Endure the present, and watch for better things.”

“In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?”

“Who can blind lover's eyes?”

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.”

“Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.”

“As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.”

“I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.”

“Obviously, I did not start my Test career too well. With the bat, I was probably not quite ready to play at that stage. I was happy to go back to first-class system and learn my game a bit more, honing my skills, particularly my defence and patience.”

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”