"Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine."

“When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.”

“These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing - the real source - means the photographer has to watch, dig, listen for voices, sniff the smells, and have many doubts. My life in photography has been lived as a skeptic.”

“There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.”

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.”

“I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.”

“The era of resisting big government is never over.”

“If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.”

“I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.”

Source : Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2006). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life”, p.196, Revell