Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.

The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.