I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline