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

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.

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.

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.