You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

You learn the most when you’re out on the edge.

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

Farewell to thee! but not farewellTo all my fondest thoughts of thee:Within my heart they still shall dwell

He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.