Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

To me, pictures are about memory.

The record must be hurled like a stone under history's wheel in order to stop it.

You must trust in your inner being of light, the angel you already are.

One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

You may slip but God isn't going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you.

It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

The right server for the right job.

Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.