All things are photographable.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

We want to be with ourselves in a land of our own under the guidance of God.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.