Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.