I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.

Live life with enthusiasm.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.