I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.

…it struck Mr. Jelliby that a wide-eyed faery was not a surprised faery. It was an angry, angry faery.

I need time every day to think.

Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.