I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

If you really love someone, ' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

Be careful when you set intentions

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.