There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Learn to always celebrate the positive things in your life, and never hesitate to leave your negative experiences behind.

The better you get, the better you better get.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.