I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.