Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.