Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.