In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

Remember what things make you special and embrace those because there are so many things that aren’t on the outside that are so important and people find so beautiful.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.