I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Truth builds trust.

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.