You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.

The way we approached Meru, and the way we approach a lot of these mountains, is with humility. A sense of, 'Is it going to give us passage?' Your mental attitude can affect the outcome.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.