“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”

“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.”

“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.”

“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.”

“The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.”