Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. . . Try to be better than yourself.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.
Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.