[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.
Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.
As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.
If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
I see tendencies, I see body language.
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.