Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.
I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.
In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U. S. , I was asking, Where is my food?
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.