After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
Know or listen to those who know.
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.