Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
After a storm comes a calm.
Know or listen to those who know.
I can, therefore I am.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.