Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.

Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."