“Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.”

“We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.”

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

“Sometimes in the mountains the animals make paths by using the same route again and again. If you don't know what you're doing, you might think it's a path made by humans--it looks that way. If you follow that path, the path of beasts, you won't get anywhere at all. People lost in the wilderness, they follow these paths and only get more and more lost. Sometimes they lose their way and they die. It's not a path for humans, it's a dangerous diversion. Are you sure that's the road you want to take? It won't get you where you want to go.”

“It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.”

“The closer it came the more speed it gathered about it, until suddenly it was tearing a great hole right through the day.”