To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
After a storm comes a calm.
Well done is better than well said.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Know or listen to those who know.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.