Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Well done is better than well said.
After a storm comes a calm.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.