What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.