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.

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

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.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

Because that is how one survives eternity, ” I say, “or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

I always say to my people, how come I'm always audited and friends of mine are never audited?

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.

You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It's always extra cool... always a treat.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.