Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Once you lose somebody so close to you, you become very overprotective.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.