The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
It's always too early to quit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.