Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

It is not who you know it is what you know - If you don't know anything, you won't know anyone

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s****

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.