To continue in one path is to go backward.
I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.
people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U. S. , I was asking, Where is my food?
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
The footpath down to the well is healed.
Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.