...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.