I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

Faith is taking God at His Word.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

You look like you're ready for bed!