It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.

I wanted to achieve something essential in life, something that is not measured by money or position in society. The mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambitions to achieve. They are my cathedrals, the houses of my religion. In the mountains I attempt to understand my life. They are the way I practice my religion. In the mountains I celebrate creation, on each journey I am reborn.

Anatoli Boukreev

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri CartierBresson

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Oscar Wilde

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.Sevastopol

Leo Tolstoy, May, 1855

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

James Freeman Clarke

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Clive Bell

If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

Les Williams

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Haile Gebrselassie

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone de Beauvoir

Start before you're ready.

Steven Pressfield