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.

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.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.

But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?