One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.