If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin? Master of Stupidity: No stupidity, no sin.

One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.