I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Repentance is accepted remorse.