Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.

I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play...

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

There is a better way to do it - Find it!