The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.