Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.