The diet for climbing all the time isn't really different from the diet for living. It's not like cardio sports where you're burning a bajillion calories every day.

I think there is a way to do things right to tread lightly on the world

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

[about a hat] You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society.

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.