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)

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

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.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.

Continual improvement is an unending journey

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.