Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I can, therefore I am.
Only the educated are free.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.