If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Who seeks shall find.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.