In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.

A good Christian, never take advantage of other people

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

Display is as false as it is costly.

Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.