Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

The summit is just a halfway point.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.

Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

There are no short cuts to the top.

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I want to reach the top with it all--business, family and faith!

Dance to music in your soul.

With natural law there is no flaw, we must act in truth and be smart.”Grampa Foster, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles.

Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.