To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
You never know what motivates you.
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.