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.

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

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.

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.

Oh my past! It’s such a long time ago now.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?