To make an end is to make a beginning.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.