Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.

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

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

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

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Art is the medicine for the soul.

I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that I won't play.

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.