All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life.

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

God's greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will.

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

All beauty contains darkness.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.