“To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!”

“Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!”

“There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!”

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

“Stronger beings see the big picture! Superior beings see the detail.”

“Life isn´t a puzzle to be solved. It´s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle to get in your way and stop you. Yeah, it´ll be hard, but once you reach the summit of it, you´ll be able to see the world for what it really is. And at the top, it never seems to have been as difficult a feat to climb there as you first made it out to be. Most of all, you´ll know that you beat the mountain, and that you rule it. It does not rule you.”