My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

If you want to truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.

There is no such thing as defeat until you admit so yourself, but not until then!

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?” 

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.” 

“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera," he would say again and again” 

“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.” 

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

“Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.”

Great creative work isn’t possible if you’re trying to piece together 30 minutes here and 45 minutes there.

When you’re writing and you start to feel really uncomfortable, that’s when you know you’re starting to get it right. I’d imagine that applies to photography. It applies to everything.

Don’t save your best for volume two

If you don’t care about yourself, make it about other people.

If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.

It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

You are remembered for the rules you break.