After a storm comes a calm.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.