Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

Because someone imagined it so we have, if you can imagine it you can release it.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

A day may sink or save a realm.

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal