If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.