Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order