"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”  --Anatoli Boukreev

"Go without hate, but not without rage; heal the world."  --Paul Monette

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, it is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous. There are many animals, who though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds. And to things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. […] Indeed, terror is in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or latently, the ruling principle of the sublime.”  -- Edmund Burke

"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."  --Victor Hugo 1845 essay "Villemain" 

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life." Paraphrase of Hugo. Never said by Churchill.

"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."  --Carl Rogers

"Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful."  --Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, London, beginning of January 1874

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."  --Anne Lamott