Well done is better than well said.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
It's always too early to quit.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.