I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

Love is heavenly.Expression of love gives us the sweetest joy and deepest fulfillment.

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.

Embrace life. You have life. There's a lot things going on out there.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.