Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion.