Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Only the educated are free.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.