Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
It's always too early to quit.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Only the educated are free.
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.