People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.

If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.