Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

Don't talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart.

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

The oceans are full of surprises!

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!