If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Feel wonderful because life is nothing but the most beautiful journey.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.