Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.