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

“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.”

“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.”