Themes recur again and again in my work.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams.

If we have our eyes upon ourselves, our problems, and our pain, we cannot lift our eyes upward. A child looks up when he’s walking with his father, and the same should be true for the Christian.

In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine.

Life is greater than all art.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.