“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

History is written by the winners.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.

An army marches on its stomach.

I have seen only you, I have admired only you, I desire only You

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.