I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.