These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

Climbing had captured my soul.

The sun is rising. Let us feel the glint of light in the heart so that we can see and enjoy the magnificence of life.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

I have a dream! Because I have lived a nightmare.

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.