Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't, ” he said, his own jaw a little tight. “So I stole his car.

Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.”Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

I've been a huge horror fan since I was about eight years old, which is a little bit young to be watching scary movies.

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.