I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.