Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.