Climbers have no sense of smell.

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.

The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

I don't say anything unintentionally.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.