What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29

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.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

If you're going to take a shot at the king. You know, you'd better kill him.

As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.