Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.

No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.