Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.