The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

Being crazy isn't enough.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?