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.

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

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.

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.