To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Only the educated are free.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.