The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

To me, pictures are about memory.

I am not a teacher. I can only inspire you and show you how to unfold your own beauty.

Don't settle. If you settle, you already know it's below your standards. You are entitled to the best this life has to offer.

The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution to the recession? Apparently, they didn't share it with the rest of us.

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.