Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

Where ever I go, God will be with me.