“Sorrow's a tall mountain you climb one inch at a time. You ain't supposed to do it quick; else you won't profit from the journey.”
“You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”
“...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...”
“Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one.”
“If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!”
“Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.”