We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.