Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

Climbing had captured my soul.

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.