Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

We see the world through our experience.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

The collective sensation is one’s perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.

Great mentors give great advice.

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.