No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it.

The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else.

When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.