You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people, " he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.

I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach.

He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.