America and China need to understand each other.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.