Maya Lin

To fly we have to have resistance.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'