Vietnamese Proverb

[Babies are] a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I’m going to be a real mommy.

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite often the hard way.

You know, it’s the silliness in me. It has always been there. I love to make people laugh. It comes from my family. My family is funny.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

No person in their right mind would want to put their family through what I’ve had to put my family through.

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

My most important title is “mom-in-chief”. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the centre of my world.

I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is. The same thing is true in the work that I do. It’s all about me feeling where people are. So that’s why I try to be really present, even when I’m on a rope line. I never take for granted my interactions with people. And it’s never black-and-white. I’m usually reading the crowd, reading the people that I’m with. I guess if this role has changed me, it’s improved my ability to do that. I’ve gotten better at sensing where people are at any given time.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time, because it’s too hard…To put it loosely, the reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up…

Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.