When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.

Going to the gym at this odd hour didn't 'work out' for me.

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.

I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.