The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.