On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

Love could be passionate, compassionate, and kind. Love could be physical, spiritual, or eternal.

We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.

The truth may hurt but lies kill.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

I'm sorry I can't get into Scooby Doo on any level.