I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

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.

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.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain.

Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.