What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.