Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

Reflective of the deep sense of gratitude and respect Mongolians reserved for wolves, there was a belief that only through wolves could the spirit of a deceased human be set free to go to Heaven.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.