"The beginnings of all things are small...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.”

“Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.”

“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?”

“A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.”

“My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.”

“Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.”

“Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.”

“Tears water our growth.”

“The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.”