I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.

If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.Another life is never safely envied.

Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.

One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.