Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

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

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.