Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
The majority of men. . . are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and. . . are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography. . . I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?
YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want. . . I mean, I've always. . . it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.
I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.
I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.