It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.

The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.

That time when past begins to look longer than the future

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

... Desire baffles knowledge and power.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.

Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.