Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pretty well gone.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

I doubt Dereck Chisora can knock me out.