You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Sharpness is overrated.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

The more people grow, the more they attain personal mastery. They become assets to the organization, not liabilities..

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.