The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.

Bears find themselves at the spot where two deep-seated but contradictory human impulses collide: the desire to feel protected from unforeseeable danger and the longing for unspoiled nature.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!