Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

Those that reach their goals perish.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

Love elevates the beauty of life.

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

All of my days are held in your hand, crafted into your perfect Plan.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.