“For me it’s all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.”

Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

I’ve been working with photography for many years.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

When you let me take I’m grateful. When you let me give I’m blessed.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I’ve had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I’m not just signing books – I’m showing slides and talking about the work

I’ve never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I’ve been at it ever since – I’ve never stopped.

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.

Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.

And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.