Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Photography helps people to see.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.