Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

Motivation ignites a flame of fire within our spirit.

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Build a life, don't live one...

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.

You're in love, that's what your problem is.