If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

When a man can do better than everyone else in the same walk he does not make any very painful exertions to outdo himself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be you start going with the status quo.

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

My body had given up on me at one point. And as many injuries as I've had over the years, I truly believed that my body needed to rest and not be on the grind like it's been for the last 15 years.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Human nature is water not stone.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I'm also into ice hockey.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.