It is useless to send armies against ideas.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Being gifted needs courage.

A world of Peace and liberty is my dream

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile, ' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

Prison house for the soul

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.