Only the educated are free.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Know or listen to those who know.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Leap, and the net will appear.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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.