I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

Failure doesn't mean you have failed. It means you haven't succeeded yet

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

Boxing is not for killing each other.