I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Time spent wisely gets compensated

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.