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

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

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.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

I let you discover my skin but you found a way under.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

In school, I had two or three best guy friends, but mostly if I was just hanging, I'd like to talk to the girls, because they were more interesting. I think they were smarter.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.