It's horrible if someone delights in someone's failures. It's horrible if someone feels bad when someone does good.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around.“Arguin’, ” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.