Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace

You can make as many NAPS as you like, but unless they have clean language in the narration then you could well be sabotaging your own dreams!

If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything—literally and figuratively.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.