The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.