I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

No queen has had to fight an insurrection in half a millennium. And she takes it personally. But it was her fate to be a good queen that followed four poor ones

Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Let us see what love can do.