“In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.”

“They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?”

“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.”

“First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.”

“That on any day you could pick there are thousands and thousands of little deaths, tiny tragedies, and that all of them matter.”

“He didn't look back or wave, although I watched. He just assumed Shaun was there, and would always be there.Humans take so much for granted.”

“It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells.To think, this year I will grow into a body you never will have touched.”