“Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.”

“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.”

“In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.”

“- It was a joke. Remember irony.- Sister of bitterness?”

“Time heals everything. But time does not erase the scar.”

“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”

“Maybe mountaineering shouldn't be considered heroic at all, since the whole effort is 'useless' and in no way to be compared with sitting down at the wrong lunch counter in the early-sixties South, or going into battle. Nevertheless, situations arise in the useless enterprise of mountaineering that present people with choices, that make emotional and physical demands that few can meet.”