Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.

Destiny can never be denied. It takes time to unfold .

Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.