One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

No one is perfect in their life but those who learn from their mistakes is on right path of perfection

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all