There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn’t grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I’m an adult".

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

The greater part performed achieves the less.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.