There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
Photography has taken me from isolation.
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.
For me N. M. E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
When I'm in the U. S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.