I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

I am very quick to judge.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.