the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

Personally I prefer Gospel music.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.