I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.

My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Education is the great engine to personal development.