She said that Life is a combination of keeping your ideals, keeping your sense of humor, and meeting the circunstances that come up; and she also said something about seeing ourselves as actors in a great experiment of which we do not know the denouement.

May-ling saw herself as a Medici able to alter destinies. Chinl-ling once described her sister as a mere romantic, she loved power, Chiang had power, he proffered power...