As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.