I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others