After a storm comes a calm.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.