“Men are separated by so many petty things.”

I’m not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I’m such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can’t. It’s a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Everest is completely out of control. It’s like crack.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that (“et avec cela”, Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self (“moi”, Fr.) so hardly worthy (“digne”, Fr.) of it.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.