Wherever you are - be all there.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.