You push the button, we do the rest.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.

A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.