When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

It is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.