Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Wherever you are - be all there.
It's always too early to quit.
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.