After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Well done is better than well said.
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.