If you can dream it, you can do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.