The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

When I look at your smile, I can see your heart. When I look at your heart, it makes me smile back.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.