Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Well done is better than well said.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.