Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things?

Leave the body in such a way that the Supreme Power gets notified and becomes aware, attentive and receptive to receive us, the way a child returns back home after decades of touring.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William, ' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.