Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, ‘Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?’
There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.