(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Make each day a new horizon.

Happiness only real when shared.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.