The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

I would not mind being a bit evil, for the larger good.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I tried to log on to the Obamacare website today. I don't think I'm doing it right. I lost 300 bucks playing Texas Hold 'Em.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

Someday each one of us will have to account to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for what we have done with His name.

I look like a child - and I love it!