Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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.