Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.