Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

Keep the dreams of your youth very close to your heart.

Ego-less, in time, you will no longer be God-less.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.