All photographs are self-portraits.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.