The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

I am just a plain, common man.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.