Those that reach their goals perish.

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.

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.

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.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

I don't like fashionistas. They only wear the brand. You want to become a fashionista? Easy! Spend money.

That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.