Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Know that your heart can be deployed to wherever the Lord sends you in prayer

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

Have I done what is really important today?

Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.