To become a photographer leave your house first.

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

The best time to seek a favour is when you can give something in return. The best time to expect to succeed is when you're capable of working for it.

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause

A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.