To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

The greatest grace shall be harmony in human relations.

Train up a child in the way he should go

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

When God begins his good works it is difficult to hold on, if you are in a passive position

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.