When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

Why would I want to fit in?

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.