Tell my sons: a father's last letters

Introduction ... To be strong enough to know when you are weak, brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid

Chapter One ... Not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge

Chapter Two ... Not to substitute words for actions

Chapter Three ... To be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success

Chapter Four ... To seek out and experience a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of lift, an appetite for adventure over love of ease

Chapter Five ... To seek a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, and to exercise a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity

Chapter SIx ... To be modest so that you will appreciate the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength

Chapter Seven ... To be serious, yet never to take yourself too seriously; to cry, but also to laugh

Chapter Eight ... To discover the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what is next, and the joy and inspiration of life

Epilogue: "How are you doing?"