Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.