Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Leap, and the net will appear.
It's always too early to quit.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
You never know what motivates you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.