The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s your life, live it in whatever way is best for you.

Where there is personality, there is discord.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

I'm no longer afraid of conflict, and I don't think conflict is a bad thing.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.