The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
You never know what motivates you.
Who seeks shall find.
Leap, and the net will appear.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.