"I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present." — Maya Ying Lin, American designer, born 1959
"I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes." — Abbey Lincoln, American singer, born 1930
"I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me." — Abbey Lincoln, American singer, born 1930
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" — Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, born 1809
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have." — Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, born 1809
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." — Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, born 1809
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." — Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, born 1809
"What kind of man would like a life without daring? Is there a better way to die? I would rather, by far, die crashing in a plane, to dying in a bed." — Charles Lindbergh, American pilot, born 1902
"No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old." — Art Linkletter, American television host, born 1912
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." — Art Linkletter, American television host, born 1912
"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death." — Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor, born 1891
"The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee." — Tara Lipinski, American figure skater, born 1982