If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

You learn the most when you’re out on the edge.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

I merged so completely with love, and was so fused, that I became Love and Love became me.

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.