Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

To the militant, identity is everything.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

Inner space is the real frontier.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.