“the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.”

“The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this wont happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.”

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

“Everything we personally own thats made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that were either directly responsible fo...”

“Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when youre right on the edge, but you dont go over. You have ...”

“Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Not being tense but ready.Not thinking but not dreaming.Not being set but flexible.Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for w...”

“...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster an...”

“It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer...”