Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

But everything I have to give, I'll give to you

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.