"I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink."

“What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.”

“Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.”

“This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.”

“If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.”

“When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.”

“The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?”

“The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.”

“The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing