Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Take care of your body from the inside out.

Better to die than to live in fear.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.