“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”

“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”

“Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the str...”

“Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy.”

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of ...”

“When people tell me they cant afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and were already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonder that is availab...”

“Don't hide in the trees when you know that tigers can climb.”

“Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.”

“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is thi...”

“During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the mountains, and about what being a woman climber means. Now I know...”

“To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.”

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”

“Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many...”