To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.