You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Being in love with yourself will teach how to love others.

A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.