Keep it fun. Don't take it too seriously. At the same time, when you do feel inspired, take it seriously, too.

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

The rock still has something to teach me.

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.

With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired.

There's a balance. Time and place for everything.

There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.

I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.

Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

People want me to do things, be a certain way and that's not going to happen. I'm going to be Albert Belle.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.