Your lies tells me as much about you, as do your truths.

Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace

Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.

Ego is the world's worst narcotic

Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.

无惧无急 (The fearless do not hurry.)

when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.