By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
It's always too early to quit.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Who seeks shall find.
You never know what motivates you.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.