Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.