When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.

Then I closed my eyes.That was it. That was Before. Now here we go into After.

I fought a killer and didn’t even smudge my makeup.

I know I'm late, but I've finally joined Facebook!

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

We don't act the same in every situation. Things bleed into all kinds of other things, from behavior to identity.

The military taught me discipline, how to problem solve, teamwork and loyalty, a perfect parallel to the kitchen. If we could take that and bottle it, it would be a amazing thing.

Bad shopping habits die hard.