The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Photography helps people to see.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation the image is.

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography.

However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

Spiritual partnership implies a goal of encouraging and supporting the unfolding of each other's soul's reasons for being here in the first place.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.

Friends are connected heart to heart. Distance and time can't break them apart.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.