The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

War makes its own morals.

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

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.