Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a “Gnani Purush” [the enlightened one]!

The failure to read the Holy Bible leads to spiritual depletion.

The Jock Upstart, is what Wellington calls - called me. A man who does not know his allotted place in the scheme of things.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize.

There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.