For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

I was quaking in my boots.

Destiny brought two souls, Jeremiah and Lailah Akita, to light the world with love.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.