The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Only the educated are free.
It's always too early to quit.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.