Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too.

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.