You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.

Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.

Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.