You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

Coaches need to have a vision.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn’t hide you from me. I found you once. I’ll always find you.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.