When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Truth is in all our hearts. He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.

She's clearly gone too long without male companionship if any brute who walked her way made her sit up and take notice.

Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.