I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!

We exist in the world of books.

Public speaking skills are an essential key to achieving career advancement and success.

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

All things are only transitory.

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.