Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Vote in a national election.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.