To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Know or listen to those who know.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.