There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.