The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.

The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice.

SHUT UP!...PADDLE!

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

I've always been a proud man.

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed.

I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.