No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. – Mark Twain
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you dont want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but its also a parents worst nightmare: That they wont need you. Its like the real tragedy of parenting. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. – Bear Grylls