Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift Invisible expectancy tossed and turnedFrom the light of memories a blessed ray earned

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

There is no problem so bad that you cannot make it worse

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.