Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.

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.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

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.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I am me, therefore I am the best.