Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
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.
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.
I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.