Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.