As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

Climbing had captured my soul.

There is a good things to those who wait..

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

The cool, grey city of love.

The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.