You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

As a human being, our abilities are unlimited. The only limitation is the mindset.

I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!