Always desire to learn something useful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.