Climbing had captured my soul.

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

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.

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.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last.