The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

What is life if not joy?

There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.

No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.

There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love.

It is difficult to move on when your surroundings stay the same.

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

Sometimes the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look.

I let you discover my skin but you found a way under.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

The weekends are too short for sleep!

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.