You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Our life is a gift and a blessing from God

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.