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.

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.

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.

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.

Money is still the root of all evilYet we tell our kids don't get that degreeThe jobs don't pay enough.

Do you see the light within yourself? Do you see how you have given it to others?

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Most worries are reruns.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

We've got to find another way of producing energy.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.