Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

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

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

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

Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.