For years, my Chinese family supported me, but they wanted me to have an arranged marriage, so I ran away and worked as a waitress. It was a tiny salary, but I was so happy; it was the first time I'd accomplished something.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.
Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
People say I haven't accomplished anything, but I feel like I've done a lot. I'm an ambassador for the Cybersmile Foundation, which is an anti-bullying organization.
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?
For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.
I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.
Three majors at 28. It's a cool feeling. It really is.
I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.
I've earned every single thing that I've got.
I am proud of what I've done.
Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did, and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.
I've accomplished everything I tried to accomplish in basketball.
While it may not have been the flashiest or the most creative, I brought a very unique skill set, and I executed in a fashion that very few have done before me and, I think, very few will do after me.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.
It's unbelievable how far my career has taken me.
I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.
To win on a mile-and-a-half is big for me.
