If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You never know what motivates you.
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.