Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

To me, pictures are about memory.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

In terms of objectives or agenda, Donald Trump has been the most transparent candidate that I can remember.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.