One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.