By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Never complain and never explain.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Only the educated are free.
But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.