Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

A pupil is a great resource.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

You can achieve anything, as long as you put your mind to it.

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

Your path will shine when you shine on your path!

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

I was against the war in Iraq.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

A lot of people believe, including Howard Dean is looking at this, that the Democratic party demands a full-time chair.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.