The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.

Your only shame is to have shame.

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.