Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

To live is to grow.

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

I've made more bad decisions at 3 in the morning than I can list!