Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.

You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

The way we approached Meru, and the way we approach a lot of these mountains, is with humility. A sense of, 'Is it going to give us passage?' Your mental attitude can affect the outcome.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

Live for Your Life not for others...

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

Never does our good God leave us save to hold us better

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

Those who are humble enough to learn anew will succeed in this new age.