You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language.

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!