My most-used word was no! I said no to pockets, no to zippers, no to extra loops. In the end, all the products were so slim and light.

You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

It’s the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That’s the feeling I am looking for.

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

She was poison in a pretty bottle.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.