“My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. ”
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity (2007)
Introduction
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
“The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.”
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (2001): 2001 Gift Edition
Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun. I would certainly never be able to be happy, to get married, I could never have children. Hell, I couldn't even get a job as a dishwasher.
