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.

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.

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.

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Kira: "Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or...No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it was...maybe he wanted to live on forever in Rei.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.