Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but what were you when you were alive?

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.

I'll cry at the end of the day, not with fresh makeup.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.