At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.

The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.

We'll climb with you and steal your women.

Search for the Divine Being.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

I always love seeing what worries you. Strigoi? No. Questionable food? Yes.

The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.