Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

It’s delicious like my favorite treat! It’s definitely good to eat!

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.

It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.