My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself.

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

Things just enter reality through photographs.

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it

Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.

Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

I would like to have three or four kids.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.