A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

Art is born in attention.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.