If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
Well done is better than well said.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.