I can, therefore I am.
It's always too early to quit.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.