Only the educated are free.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.