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

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.