You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

To do good, you actually have to do something.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.