The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.

Adversity helps a man to know his inherent great abilities.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

No man of God does something against the Lord

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.