The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.

She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.