Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
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.