Only the educated are free.
You never know what motivates you.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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.