The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.

A smile from the heart is a therapy that turns a bad moment to a gracious one.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.