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.

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.

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. . .

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.

All along it was not by stunts of glory, but by touch and laughter and tears that Jesus has healed and restored.

The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.