The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace.