Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.
The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.
I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.
A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.