I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins...you should be shot in the head.

You can victoriously overcome any situation by faith and hope.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.