A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't. - Randy Pausch

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work.
Let’s just drive ’em.