I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.