Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
After a storm comes a calm.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Know or listen to those who know.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
I can, therefore I am.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.