... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

We see the world through our experience.

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.

I lead verbally, not by example.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.