I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.

Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.

Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

A need is life seeking expression within us.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

Even hating myself I still think I'm better than you.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.