Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.

Do anything totally and it is finished

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

The only time you ever really lose love is when you choose to let it go.

I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

I can't think of anything more horrible than sharing what I'm doing all day!

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.