"You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between."

“Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.”

“You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "ed1962"/ "Stevie Ray Vaughan - 11 - Life Without You - Philadelphia Blues (Bootleg)", www.youtube.com. October 27, 2009.

“We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.”

Source : "African Anglicans Shun US Money Over Gay Policies". www.csmonitor.com. April 19, 2004.

“The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.”

“A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.”

“All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

“I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.”