I certainly made mistakes.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pretty well gone.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done.

People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them.

One thing about trust is that everyone's for it.