A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.