A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

Some jokes are stupid and useless, if you can't get it. It's to stupid to go in it, but whatever!- Make your choice!

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.