All glory comes from daring to begin.- Anonymous There are no ordinary cats.- Colette People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.- Albert Einstein The shortest answer is doing.- English Proverb The coward threatens when he is safe.- Goethe Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.- William James The man who looks for easy work always goes to bed tired.- Jewish saying Venice is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.- Erica Jong One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.- Pauline Kael The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.- Bruce Lee The pen is mightier than the sword.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton They sicken of the calm that know the storm.- Dorothy Parker We cannot get grace from gadgets.- J.B. Priestley In Hollywood, if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it.- Rex Reed Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.- Tacitus Of all the things I ever lost, I miss my mind the most.- Steven Tyler The way of the sage is to act but not to compete.- Lao Tzu Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.- Kurt Vonnegut My little old dog… A heartbeat at my feet.- Edith Wharton Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.- Oscar Wilde