The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
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.
How very hard it is to be a Christian!
Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.
When millions of people stand up and fight. . . they win.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.