Lisa Ling

“There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.”

“I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.”

“I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.”

“I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.”

“Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.”

“My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.”

“Make your relationship your number-one priority.”

“I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.”

“My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.”

“The best education I have ever received was through travel.”

“We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.”

“I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.”

“I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.”

“You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.”

“I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.”

“When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.”

“Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.”

“I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.”

“I don't cook anything.”

“I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.”