To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.