To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.

I believe a woman who loves herself is a powerful, passionate, attractive force and I commit from this day forward to love myself deeply and extravagantly

Find what brings you joy and go there.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.

I believe that the Source from which we come is alive in us as our breath, and as we speak and sing and breathe, we release the beauty of the Creator into the world.

Remember, we are creating the lives we're about to enter into.

There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

God to me is the universe unfolding.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

A hand cannot write on itself.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.