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

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.

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

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

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.