When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring.

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?