Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

I live a very low-key life.

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.