In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

If you don’t almost fail, then it wasn’t hard enough

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Modernization means Westernization.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.