Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.