Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

I'm just at the beginning of my dream. At 78, I'm finally at the place now for myself where I feel my true voice has a potential of being expressed out in the world.

Middle age is such a low point for well-being

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree.

Simplicity is the spring of heart.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

You can't speak openly about everything.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.