I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Believe in your dreams.

The absolute best way to raise kind kids, is to be kind parents.

Spoon with me, and I'll show you what a good cuddler I am.

Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Starting our day off with a dose of negativity can have lasting effects.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.