"Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed."

“Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.”

“Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!”

“In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.”

Source : Steve House, Scott Johnston (2014). “Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete”, p.40, Patagonia

“Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.”

“If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.”

“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.”

“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.9, Random House

“The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.”