God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

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.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

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.