And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pretty well gone.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.