I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

If you are loved, that is all you need.

The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.