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

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.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me.

Football is nothing without fans.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be.