Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me.

I like to joke that Inhofe is as far left as I'll go for an employer.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.