For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

You don't have to be perfect, just be loving and compassionate.

Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.