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.

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.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

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.

Imagination is Everything!

Music is poetry in motion.

Don't find customer for your products, find products for your customers.

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best

People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.

I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.