“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...”
“If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!”
“Sometimes you've got to start at the lowest valleys to climb to the highest mountain tops.”
“When you climb a mountain, look to the top and not to the rocks that surround you. Make sure of where you step as you climb, and do not leap, in case you loose your footing.”
“I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.”
“One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.”