Only the educated are free.
After a storm comes a calm.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
You never know what motivates you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.