Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.