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

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.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.