I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

When we are down there, if we are parted, come and find me again, " said Keedra.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.

People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you.