I think about giving up. I almost do.

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 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.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.

Of course I want the moon. And were you to offer it, I'd propose as a trade the stars in my eyes.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

Are anybody's parents typical?

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.