The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Wherever you are - be all there.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.