The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

To do good, you actually have to do something.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.