It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.It was a goodbye kiss.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Stalking the girls' softball team again?

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.