Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.