There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Men often fall in love at first sight

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

Could you double-check the envelope?

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

She's loving him with that body, I just know it.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.