Only the educated are free.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Know or listen to those who know.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.