My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.

I can photograph someone if I can touch them.

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm fine. Once we get talking I have a great time but not in the beginning.

Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

Just look at the way he hangs in mid air!

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.