The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Never complain and never explain.
Who seeks shall find.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Know or listen to those who know.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.