If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
After a storm comes a calm.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.