The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.

I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.

I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

But plants grow again, " She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

People can and do change.

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint

Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.