If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.