Always desire to learn something useful.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
Well done is better than well said.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.