To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Well done is better than well said.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Who seeks shall find.
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.