I'm in love with hope.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.