The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
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.