You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

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 used to worry about tomorrow, but that was before I survived yesterday. Now it's one breath at a time.

Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

I see myself as an educator.

I always try to have a bigger picture view of my career. But that didn't mean that I didn't cry about not getting jobs.

Before you make the key, study the lock.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.